Baptism 受洗典禮

Finally I've done the copy of the CD for Neil's son, Atlas' Baptism! Because I went crazy taking hundreds of photos on that day (2010/05/16), I had to go through them to only keep the clear enough ones (some of the photos were taken badly...).           

__________________________ at 21:49pm Fri, May 21st

Well well, finally I'm sitting down and getting back to this..

Friday night right after I started writing this, G asked me to give him a hand (actually, 2 hands) to release his headache. So Princess J massaged G for an hour (or more..) and didn't get back to this...

Bloody too tired and sore to type after working hard~~ @_@

Plus the next day was market day, had to get up EARLY!!

Atlas' Baptism is definitely a novelty to Princess J! Especially in a Greek church~~

It's different from other churches that I've been in!

Although it's not a big church, the adorment of the church has got that kind of luxury and rich feeling!

The whole process went about half hour or so. I thought it was going to be very solemn and we had to be very quiet and wear a serious mask. Yet it was not much so. People were allowed to take photos! That's why I went crazy taking a lot...

I had to say, as a little baby, Atlas was being very patient and doing very well on his big day~ Even he didn't understand the long prayers read by the priest (I don't understand a word at all, and I'd assume Atlas didn't...), Atlas didn't make any noise at all! Only every now and then he looked at the priest-- thinking: "mm, what are you murmuring about?? How long is it gonna be...? <by Princess J's imagination  ^^>

Till the real part of the baptism, he finally bursted into cries! (I would cry out loudly if I were him-- being dipped into water naked in winter...).

Then Atlas got dressed again. At the end of the ceremony, all the guests walked up to Neil (the father), Thalia (the mother) and Atlas (the son, ofcourse) to congratulate them!

After the ceremony, we went straight to the reception place.

All the guests got their name cards (Thalia made them ^^) on the table which they were sat in.

Food and drinks were served, Greek music was on the flow in the air with the smell of food, the talks among people and the smiles on their faces~~

When the cake was mentioned, kids all went to have a look! I did, too! (Some kids are taller than I am, anyway.. ><) It was a CUTE cake!

Pity G and I didn't stay to the last cz we had to head back to the market to pack up~  So we didn't get to taste the cake.. (oh~ I'd love to!!)

__________________________11:oopm, Sun, May 23rd

星期五終於拷貝好 Neil兒子受洗典禮那天我拍的相片!!
那天我相機抓著一直狂拍..
拍了有上百張
但有些是模糊的...
所以得先檢視過後
才把清楚可看的拷到CD給Neil
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跳了好幾天才又回到這篇
因為星期五晚上
公主我才剛起頭要寫..
G先生就說他頭痛欲裂
要我用我的神奇魔力手
幫他按摩減輕疼痛
那一按不得了
一個多小時就過去了
搞得公主我又累又痠
加上隔天又得早起去市場上工
拖到今天才來補完這篇...


話說Neil兒子- Atlas的受洗典禮
相較於對寺廟有熟悉感的公主而言
可完全是個不同的體驗啊~
更何況是一個希臘人的教堂和儀式
(Atlas媽媽-Thalia那邊是希臘人血統的)

雖然不是個大教堂
但裡面的裝潢可一點也不馬虎!
我感覺他們走的是華麗復古風

整個儀式進行大約半個多小時
不得不豎起大拇指稱讚Atlas
從牧師開始念念有詞到真正受洗之前
他都安安靜靜沒哭沒鬧
只偶爾用眼睛瞄牧師
<公主想像的Atlas內心OS:
到底在碎碎唸什麼?
都聽不懂...@_@
還要多久ㄋㄟ.....>

直到他被脫光光
浸到受洗桶裡
他才哇哇大哭起來
(也是啦~
如果是你
你是沒有足夠能力抗拒的嬰兒
被脫光光任人擺佈
像沾醬一樣進出水裡
又是冬天
你不哭才怪~)

一陣折騰之後
Atlas終於再度著裝完畢
和爸爸媽媽一起接受大家的祝福

接著所有人馬移師到另一個地方
也就是可以讓客人坐下來吃吃喝喝~~
每個人都有一張Thalia製作的名片卡
在被指定的座位上
食物一道一道慢慢地送上桌面
希臘音樂流洩滿室
伴隨著人們談笑聲~~

然後到了要切蛋糕之前
所有小孩都蜂擁過去看蛋糕
(哈哈,公主我當然也擠過去看
反正有些小孩根本就比我高~~)
蛋糕超可愛
可惜G和我得趕回市場收工
沒吃到.....
(天知道我超想吃那蛋糕的啦~~~~~~)