First thing is everybody takes off the last two weeks in December to party, spend more time with the family, and visit with friends, and all of the schools are closed for the holidays until January 6. Christmas is one of the biggest celebrations of the year. Christmas in Mexico is celebrated in a lot of ways. One thing they do a lot is the recreation of Mary and Joseph searching for a room at the inn. They first start out by going to their neighbors or if they have a lot of family close by they go with them. So they go to the first house and sing a song about how they are Joseph and Mary and they need a place to stay, then the people who live in the first house sing back about how there is no room at the inn, then they go home.
             The next day they get the people in the first house and they all go to the second house and on and on. It is supposed to represent Mary and Joseph when they went to pay taxes and all of the people go to the same place so there are no rooms to stay in. So they finely tell the innkeeper at the last house that Mary is pregnant so he lets them stay in the manger. So the people in the 12th house have already prepared a party so they all go in and party. Until midnight when they go to midnight mass.
             They also instead of a Christmas tree every family has a nativity set
             whether it is a big life size one or a homemade crappy one that they set up instead of a Christmas tree, but without the baby Jesus. They don't put the baby Jesus in the manger until December 25th because that was when he was born. They also have Luminarias. They are like a paper bag with a candle and sand in it but now they don't use real candles, because of the risk of fires.
             One day they have a party that begins in the afternoon or at dinner time when the family or neighborhood shares a rosca, a rosca is kind of like angel food cake with a ceramic doll or some times it is a coin representing the b
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