Cuernavaca’s Christmas Tree Isn’t Sponsored by a Corporation December 24
This year Cuernavaca is not sporting a Coca-cola Christmas tree in the zocalo. I’m so glad. Talk about commercializing Christmas. This year’s tree was sponsored by the government and has important key words on the balls, such as “employment,” “freedom,” “clarity” (as opposed to corruption), and “love.” I guess they didn’t want to be subtle about their sponsorship.
I will not complain about the wide horizontal stripes of blue lights and the strobe light stars on the tree in addition to the government propaganda keywords. My husband declared that he liked it. I will just say that when I used to have a Christmas tree in my house, it had a much more lacey look to it. The fence around the base of the tree is downright classy with “greenery” garlands, glowing with small, crystal-looking white lights, tastefully placed randomly among the branches of the greenery.
In addition to the tree, there are two nice nativity scenes on display. One classy traditional one in the doorway of the government palace and one large one near the tree. No baby Jesus yet. It’s too Catholic in this town for him to appear until he is supposed to.
I was hoping there might be Christmas music, but not tonight (the night before Christmas Eve). Maybe tomorrow.
Other Christmas tree news:
While in Cabo San Lucas we enjoyed the park near the delegacion with its huge tree, decorated in a more traditional style than the one in Cuernavaca, stage freshly painted with night sky blue and stars, and gazebo also freshly painted and tastefully decorated with lights and garlands. We were lucky to catch the lighting ceremony, by pure chance and heard school children and professional artists performing on the stage on more than one night. Our friends tell us that during the sudden and unusual rain storm that we had on the night of the 9th (I think) the tree was knocked down! Large amounts of money and effort are being invested in getting the tree back up for Christmas.