Christmas Part 2/2

Where I live, Christmas comes in two parts, 'first Christmas day' and (surprise surprise) 'second Christmas day'. The first is preceded by Christmas eve, the important of which depends per family (and their religion). Having two days of Christmas is convenient to spread family activities.

One way
One way of doing things is: first day with the 'family-as-in-mom-dad-children', the next with extended family. The other option is: first day with her family, second day with his' (or vice versa), although the chain has to break at some point because 'her' brother might be spending the first day with his significant other's family (still not confused? ;-)

Another way
Others use the 2nd day to go shopping (comparable perhaps to Boxing Day activity).

Third day
Sometimes, very informally, a third day is introduced to spent time with friends.

Holiday
These two days of Christmas are holidays in the sense of getting off from work and school, but they always fall on 25th and 26th. Since Saturday and Sunday are already non-work/school days, this year is therefore very disadvantuous (had to Google that). Especially because the same goes for New Year's day (1st of January).

Grey Christmas
In closing, I want to introduce the term 'Grey Christmas', as opposed to 'White Christmas'. This happens if Christmas is decorated with over a week old snow, mixed up with sand, oil, salt and what more. That's not white man, that's grey!