Happy Penultimate Day!
Dec. 30th, 2006 12:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tcepsaThere's no way that I'd be able to put down everything that's happened in the days since I left the East Coast. Well, okay, there's one way, but that would involve hours of writing and I'd rather spend those with my family and/or reading my most recent literary acquisition: Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon
That having been said, on with the post!
We ended up opening Christmas presents on Christmas Eve this year, which was a first for me--the traditions that I grew up with involved opening them on Christmas Day. So it threw me off a little bit, because all of my anticipation was geared up towards that wonderful event happening in the morning. However, I had enough forewarning that this might happen that I was able to realign my anticipation and have a great time :)
Had a great Christmas Day with Sarah and Tom and some other friends who stopped by throughout the day. It was really awesome having people over and spending the day with good friends. Thanks for coming by, all of you who did ^_^
Flew out from DCA at oh-dark-thirty the next day and made it back to Minnesota around 11, had some down time at the house to rest up, and then took my parents' Toyota out to meet them in a little town where one of my aunts and uncles live just southwest of Sioux Falls, SD.
The next few days are sort of a blur of hanging out, watching the first half of the extended version of The Two Towers (we were too tired by the time the first disk ended to want to continue--it was about 3 AM after a long day), hot-tubbing, hopping across rocks at the falls from whence Sioux Falls derives its name, book shopping, great meals, fudge making, cookie making, watching Cars (made it all the way through that one :), and so on!
Yesterday we said our goodbyes and made our way back across Minnesota and had a low key evening of hanging out and trying to lay out some plans both for the summer as a family and for my siblings regarding what next steps they are going to take in their lives. (For one it's going to be the summer between her junior and senior years in high school, and for another it will be the summer between her junior and senior years in college). And performing little science experiments.
Now we're enjoying a nice foggy day. Not sure what's going to happen next, but currently it's time for breakfast! ^_^
That having been said, on with the post!
We ended up opening Christmas presents on Christmas Eve this year, which was a first for me--the traditions that I grew up with involved opening them on Christmas Day. So it threw me off a little bit, because all of my anticipation was geared up towards that wonderful event happening in the morning. However, I had enough forewarning that this might happen that I was able to realign my anticipation and have a great time :)
Had a great Christmas Day with Sarah and Tom and some other friends who stopped by throughout the day. It was really awesome having people over and spending the day with good friends. Thanks for coming by, all of you who did ^_^
Flew out from DCA at oh-dark-thirty the next day and made it back to Minnesota around 11, had some down time at the house to rest up, and then took my parents' Toyota out to meet them in a little town where one of my aunts and uncles live just southwest of Sioux Falls, SD.
The next few days are sort of a blur of hanging out, watching the first half of the extended version of The Two Towers (we were too tired by the time the first disk ended to want to continue--it was about 3 AM after a long day), hot-tubbing, hopping across rocks at the falls from whence Sioux Falls derives its name, book shopping, great meals, fudge making, cookie making, watching Cars (made it all the way through that one :), and so on!
Yesterday we said our goodbyes and made our way back across Minnesota and had a low key evening of hanging out and trying to lay out some plans both for the summer as a family and for my siblings regarding what next steps they are going to take in their lives. (For one it's going to be the summer between her junior and senior years in high school, and for another it will be the summer between her junior and senior years in college). And performing little science experiments.
Now we're enjoying a nice foggy day. Not sure what's going to happen next, but currently it's time for breakfast! ^_^
