Last night we had the most amazing experience. Our local Lutheran church puts on a "Living Nativity" every year, and we finally were able to go. We truly felt like we had stepped back in time. When you arrive, you have to register your family with the Romans. Then you wander about the town, complete with marketplace and people in costume walking around selling wares and caring for their animals. Everybody was speaking Hebrew (I think, I recognized some words - not just Shalom! I don't think anyone was speaking Aramaic...) and coming up to us talking to us, the kids were completely freaked out! Way in the back was a small humble stable where Mary and Joseph rested with Jesus. It was so realistic it gave me and Ron chills. It felt like we were really experiencing it. The Romans were almost too realistic and gave poor Georgie quite a fright! Here are some pictures - the white spots are snow, it started snowing about an hour before we went, just after we decorated our Christmas tree. A magical night!
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