Baby, it’s cold outside. I’m parading around Beijing in negative temperatures. It hasn’t been above freezing (or anywhere near) in days. The lakes and canals are all frozen. Although, weather.com says it will be getting a little warmer over the next week.

Signs of Christmas are scattered throughout the city. I’ve seen stickers on random store windows and LED lights wrapped around bare trees. In the lobby of my office building, there are fake Christmas trees (they’re even decorated!) and Santa Claus heads hanging from the ceiling.

But perhaps the most festive Christmas display I’ve seen to date is hanging in Xizhimen on the side of a building. “High Christmas,” it shouts out in swirly letters to drivers-by, accompanied by what I am assuming are a band of blitzed-out-of-their-minds dolphins in sunglasses and coats rocking out.