Merry Christmas to All

As usual, Christmas was a whirlwind of great dinners, present-starved children, and tons of vegging.

Let's see, since we all know the food is most essential component of the Cutri holiday: Christmas eve we went to Morton's Steakhouse. The highlight of that meal was the Godiva chocolate cake. Oh, yeah, and chasing Cody through all the other resteraunt patios to the dismayed look of the other patrons (Sarah, I am now ready to run that marathon, are you?). And, in a suprise burst of preventing the unneeded killing of animals, instead of going for something easy like turkey or ham for Christmas dinner, we had vegetarian lasagna - it was awesome! Thank you Aunt Di for slaving away in the kitchen all day :)

The reason it took me so long to update my journal, is I was afraid of any sarcastic comments that could have possibly been made (By me) about this year's ultra-pragmatic Christmas giving. I decided to let you judge for yourself (or imagine the look on my 6 year old cousin Allie's face when I described my gifts to her).

I received from my mom: underwear, bras, and a frying pan.

In other news...

Today, the plan is a family ice skating trip (you know, since that's why people come to Florida, because of our great ICE SKATING). Maybe cheese fondue and gluhvien for dinner (yum!) I am even getting adjusted to being back. I haven't said "Danke", "Bitte" or "Guten..." to anyone in about two days! I am so proud of myself. It was an easier transition with Christmas, because since nothing is open on Christmas day, it reminded me of every Sunday in Switzerland, plus Monday mornings and Saturday afternoons... it was like a taste of Europe right here in America..