Twelve Days of Asheville Christmas

While we are all well-acquainted with the Christmas carol, The Twelve Days of Christmas, it is a common misconception that those twelve days happen leading up to Christmas. That, however, is not the case, and should be cause for much celebration, since we can officially stretch the Christmas season from Nov. 1 to Jan. 5! Soon, we will take over the entire calendar! Muah ha ha!

But seriously: The twelve days of Christmas actually start on Christmas day with a partridge in a pear tree, and last through January 5, the twelve drummers drumming, marking the start of the little-referenced first day of Epiphany, which begins on January 6.

In light of the fact that we spend so much time building up to Christmas, let us share with you a little bit of the Christmas after party with our own version of The Twelve Days of Christmas: The Asheville Edition. We hope you had yourself a merry little one, and if you are so inclined, we encourage you to sing aloud wherever you are when you read our Asheville list of Christmas gifts from us, your true love. Singing out loud to a random group of strangers is, after all, a very Asheville thing to do.

On the twelfth day of Christmas Asheville gave to me:
Twelve Brewers Brewing
Eleven Hipsters Brunching
Ten Stoners Smoking
Nine Artists Starving
Eight Hippies Drumming
Seven Buskers Begging
Six Hikers Camping
Five Lesbians
Four Chocolate Shops
Three Food Trucks
Two Tourists Lost
and a Hot Pot of Fair-Trade Coffee