Hi!
It always surprised me when I watched Christmas films(from US of course)where the kids go to sleep before midnight to wake up in the morning to open their presents.
Because here all the presents are open right after midnight, after Santa
comes and leaves the gifts under the tree.
When me, my brother and other cousin were younger the adults use to take us out to see the fireworks at 12pm, so when we came back to the house "Santa's presents" were under the tree, so the next thing(after the fireworks)was open the gifts. We don't believe in Santa anymore but still, we open our presents at 12pm sharp
So I'm
when I read that you *can* wait 'til morning or in Wendy's case until the afternoon to open the presents!
Other thing that we do different is that we stay the whole night awake to wait until 12pm, when we were younger sometimes our parents send us to bed (at 10pm a kid is usually sleepy) but woke us up at 11 or 11:30 pm again.
Oh! And after all the presents were opened we go to the dinning room for Christmas dinner.
So we kids usually stayed until 2am playing with our new toys while the adults usually stayed awake until 4am talking...
Now after dinner I don't go play with my toys
but go enjoy the talk with my relatives
and we stay up until 3 or 4am.
Carolyn
