Holidays Around the World: Antarctica and Australia

Today was a fun day on our holiday trip around the world. We started out heading to Antarctica. As always, we began by finding the location on the map:

Then we hopped aboard the Holiday Express, watched a slideshow of pictures of Antarctica, and listened to Oh Tacky Tree (from the Tacky Christmas CD, LOVE this!).  When we arrived we got our passports stamped:

Then we watched our powerpoint to learn about holidays in Antarctica.  We learned that no one lives there permanently so no one really celebrates holidays there. We saw pictures of penguins, whales, and seals and learned that they all reside there.

Since there are no celebrations in Antarctica, we hopped back on our plane, watched a slideshow with pictures of Australian holiday celebrations, and listened to Aussie Christmas, to travel to Australia.

We watched our powerpoint and learned a lot about how people celebrate in Australia. We learned that it's not winter there right now, but summer, so many people celebrate Christmas on the beach!  We learned that when Santa gets to Australia he gives his reindeer a break and he surfs in to deliver the presents! How funny!

Finally we made our souvenir from the trip. An Australian holiday snow globe!

What a perfect reminder of how people in Australia celebrate!

Only two more stops on our journey around the word.  Next up, Sweden!