Merry Christmas all! I thought I post some pictures of Christmas Eve at El Casa Americano. Here's our lovely little Christmas tree, complete with our presents plus the presents of one of our treeless roomies. The stockings hung above the tree (with care and lots of tape, of course) are ours as well. These are the decorations in the kitchen upstairs and this is our Christmas puzzle, completed in one night by myself and master puzzler Li. (Not coincidentally, that was also the night we finished the third season of Buffy.) For Christmas Eve day, we went to Tiger City in Taizhong (by taxi!) and dined at Chili's, which was glorious because it was the exact same food as in America, unlike that sell-out TGI Fridays. We did a little window shopping before hopping in another taxi and heading over Zhongyou department store to purchase dill and shortening at Jason's. They had neither, but I was eventually able to track down some shortening, so there will be rolls for Christmas dinner, although no dill dip.
Christmas was nice, though subdued. Paul and I got up around 7:45 am to open presents before he had to go to work at 8:30 am. Paul got a lot of books (including TwilightWatch, which he previously only had in Russian, and a collection of Edgar Allan Poe's writings including Annabel Lee), two video games, and Sunshine on DVD. I got a beautiful, wonderful, deliriously pleasant bookshelf and accompanying art/shelves, a very cool clock, a couple of video games, the Simpsons movie, some clothes, the Empresses of Constantinople (after three years of searching!), and Season 1 of Angel. Angel is a spin-off of Buffy starring the male romantic lead. We like to call him the Chest because his main character trait is that he apparently lacks the ability to wear a shirt for more than two consecutive scenes. He also broods a lot. Anyways, Paul went off to work and I got ready and then went to work. We kicked off about 1:30-ish and enjoyed much nappage and our Christmas gifts before commencing our personal Mission: Impossible--Christmas Dinner in Taiwan. It was a highly accurate re-creation, though Ranch had to be substituted for dill dip and the eclairs were from Casa Minierva instead of BYU Catering.
The highlight, of course, was talking to most of you all on phone. We miss you terribly on all special occasions and it was nice to be able to share in Christmas with our families, even if it was just for a few minutes by phone.
Merry Christmas!
4 comments:
Nice pictures! We have been missing you guys a ton as of late.
Hmm. You know, I hear communication is a great cure for that. And there are all these new-fangled devices called electronic mail and the telephone and you can use them to communicate instantly with people all over the world. What a wondrous time to be alive! :)
It's nice to know you guys had a nice christmas. How many pieces did that puzzle have?
1000. We're no slouches here.
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