MANILA, Philippines - Now that the doomsday scare is out of our minds, we can now focus on a happier event: Christmas.
How's the Christmas season like so far in countries around the world? Scroll down and find out.
IN PHOTOS: 'Tis the weekend before Christmas
In this photo taken late Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, Bosnian children talk to Santa Claus at a Christmas market in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. With its religiously mixed, but predominantly Muslim and atheist population, Sarajevo does not have a tradition of Christmas markets. But for the second year running, Sarajevo authorities have decided to set up a holiday market in the city centre to cheer up the atmosphere ahead of the New Year, one holiday nearly everyone in the country celebrates. (AP Photo/Amel Emric)
Many Filipinos traditionally attend nine consecutive dawn masses before Christmas in this largely Roman Catholic nation. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)