Top Ten Ways You Know You Are Celebrating Christmas In Kenya

10. Your holiday plans were cancelled due to a matatu strike.
9. You are instructed to bring your own plate and silverware to the neighborhood holiday party.
8. All the cars on the road have a live chicken on top.
7. There are cows in your front yard and they are NOT part of your Nativity scene.
6. Its 70 degrees and raining.
5. You bought your kid's new puppy from a guy selling them at a traffic stop.
4. You bought a new skirt for your daughter the same time you bought the puppy! (different vendor, of course.)
3. In the Kenyan version of the Savior’s Birth, the 3 Wise Men came from “Not Far.”
2. Your kids put out ugali and sukuma for Santa

And the #1 Way You Know You Are Celebrating Christmas in Kenya…..

1. You wake up to the sound of your neighbor killing a goat.

Merry Christmas!