Part time Sales Assistant, Renee Bullen (right) helps Alicia Brathwaite and her six-year-old daughter Azaira Millington with this ring at The Royal Shop.
Customers flock to Cave Shepherd for their Christmas shopping.
The streets of Bridgetown with only a few days left to Christmas.
Faith, fellowship with family and friends – and food. That seems to be the theme once again as Barbadians get ready to celebrate Christmas.
Mariah Wiltshire said that she and her sister Melissa Wiltshire, usually spend Christmas with either the family on her father’s side or her mother’s side, and that this year they will be spending it with her mother’s side.
She and her sister will be going to Popular later on this week to purchase some food items, as each member of the family contributes a dish and they will be spending it with her cousin, Lori Cumberbatch and her parents.
She said that they have not decided who will make what as yet, but she would prefer to make the sweet potato pie as this is her speciality, while her sister will most likely make the salad.
Some of other dishes that they will have on the table include ham, turkey, peas and rice, macaroni pie, great cake, chocolate cake and ice cream.
Wiltshire said that she and her sister will start off the day by visiting their mother’s gravesite before heading down to their cousin’s house.
Lisa Griffith said that she will be celebrating with her extended family and every year they pick someone’s house to spend the day in. They all also go to church together and the church that they attend depends on the family member who will be hosting Christmas day at their house.
Since they have a lot of family living overseas, the majority of whom live in the US, after the meal they connect with these various family members via Skype and speak with them. Later on in the evening, they head down to the beach to walk off the meal and that could either be at St. James or the Hastings Boardwalk, again depending on whose house they spend it at.
Zachelle Moore said that she and her husband will be going over by family to spend the day where they plan to enjoy the traditional Barbadian fare. Most likely, they will be spending the morning and afternoon at home preparing the meal and eating it and then engaging in some board games and watching television. Later on in the evening they will drive around to see some of the Christmas lights that persons have up. (PJT)
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