Sorry I didn't post yesterday, I was sick. So this post will be about how people celebrate Christmas in other countries, specifically Greece because that is where my parents are from.
So in Greece, they go to church on Christmas day. They don't get to open their Christmas presents until January first, usually at midnight when the year changes. The gift-giving is primarily only for the kids. The kids also don't believe in Santa Clause. They believe that Saint Basil brings them presents.
The story goes that there was a bad emperor that had taxed his people a lot. So much that people were struggling to survive. So Saint Basil took all of the taxes (he had somehow managed to find them) and he didn't know to whom to give them to. So he baked a pie and put all of the jewelry and coins in it. He gave each person a piece and everybody got back the amount of money and jewelry the emperor had stolen from them. And that tradition continues on today. Greek families like mine will either bake or buy a pie and put a coin in it. Then they cut the cake on New Year's eve and whoever gets the coin is considered lucky for the rest of the year.
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