Best.Holiday.Ever.

My favorite holiday is Christmas. From the start of the month of December to the end New Years’ Day are my favorite days of the whole year because of the Christmas spirit everyone possesses. Unlike the rest of the year, the holidays are reserved for merry and joy among different people. My most cherished Christmas memory occurred during the Christmas of ‘99. That Christmas we all tried to buy the best decorations and gifts and prepare for the new millennium by buying half a thousand dollars’ worth of fireworks. It was the earliest Christmas memory I could remember because I was only six years old at the time. Before we would arrive at my grandma’s house (which is where we had our Christmas dinner) my entire extended family attended a Christmas mass at Kristo Rai. While the mass was still going on, I met up with my friends outside the church and played tag with some other kids. A six-year old boy’s most wanted gift at the time was a Nintendo 64 or a Sony PlayStation. I was a huge Nintendo fan boy at the time and therefore I wanted the new Zelda game which was the ‘Ocarina of Time.’ It was the first game I unwrapped and after our Christmas dinner along with my brand new Nintendo 64, my cousins and I played our very first gaming session of Legend of Zelda. I remembered everyone being very happy and complacent.
That Christmas was the best Christmas I ever spent so far. I spent it with friends, both new and old, as well as the family I loved. Although each Christmas after that became less and less exciting compared to the Christmas of ’99, Christmas will always be my favorite holiday.