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December 19, 2004
1st Texas Christmas!
This weekend was SO NICE! It's the first weekend that I've spent alone in Texas in a few weeks! (Since before Thanksgiving I think). It was pretty busy even though my Turkish class was cancelled. Friday I spent the evening with Jennifer and Li-Wei...Saturday, I worked on the scrapbooking all day, until 3:45. I met up with Tracy, Ozan, Izel, and their friend Shawn for our "Christmas" lunch at the Cheesecake Factory. It was sooo nice!!! It was warm enough that we could sit outside! They have heat lamps that they turned on so it was warmer, but it was so enjoyable! The weather was perfect, Christmas music in the background, and then a Santa on a motorcycle drove by carting two coco-colored lab dogs, that were wearing reindeer antlers and sunglasses! It was sooo cute! It also turns out that their friend Shawn and his wife are from "Up North" so we had lots of discussion about the difference in winters here :-) It's always funny meeting a "fellow Northerner"...It's like a special bond. Even if you have nothing else in common, once you hear that someone is from the North, there's automatic conversation :-)
Tonight we just finished our 1st Texas Christmas night! Jennifer, Li-Wei, Thuc, and I went out to dinner at Chedders (the new one just opened up on 183 right near our apartment), and then we came back to my apartment for Christmas Tree cake and present opening! :-) It was sooo fun!!! We had the Christmas Alter lights on (that's what I'm using instead of a tree because I left my little fake tree at home in Rochester. So Jennifer and I decorated my fake pine needles with lights and red bulbs and put it on the hunt table :-) ) So anyway...we turned on the Sounds of the Season on the digital music TV station, and put the presents in front of the fire place and had our 1st Texas Christmas (Well...this is Thuc's like 10th Texas Christmas...but that's OK.), and this was Jennifer and Li-Wei's VERY FIRST Christmas EVER!!! So it was special :-) And Li-Wei specifically requested Christmas cake instead of Christmas cookies :-))) So I made a Christmas Tree Cake! Just for him! :-)
Thuc had to leave before Jennifer and Li-Wei, to go visit a friend, and after he left, we sat at my kitchen table, and talked about how great our friendship is and how happy we all are :-) And we decided that from now on, I'm just going to eat dinner over at their house every night :-) Li-Wei told me that he really likes it when I come over, because he can rest ;-) and watch whatever he wants to on TV :-)))) (Doesn't that sound so much like Seymen???) Sooo...tomorrow night I'm going over for dinner, and for dessert we're going to have CHristmas Tree cake :-) (Not that it's any different because I was over there every night last week for dinner ;-)
Anyway, it was so fun. We all laughed and such a nice Christmas :-)
Here are the pictures from my camera: CLICK HERE TO SEE PICTURES
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
P.S. (I'm going home in TWO DAYS!!! I can't wait!!! And we finally made a plan with my dad...He's taking us all to a spa for the night in Skinnyatles!!!)
Posted by beth at December 19, 2004 11:39 PM