Friday, December 22, 2006

Let's Party!!!!!

I am finished teaching for the next two weeks. I am so excited that I don’t have to deal with the little French kiddies for a while.

Tonight we had a Christmas celebration at our place. We made a really good dinner and opened our presents. Mandy had brought over some crackers (which I found out are not like the ones you eat!!!). They are a tradition in England at Christmas. They are little popper type things, and inside is a terrible joke, a toy and a really goofy hat. We wore our hats the whole time, and I can say that I am glad we don’t have them in the US!

We had a good time and here are some pictures.

Here we are after we opend all our presents. (I made them the scarfs they are wearing.)

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Now you see what I mean about the hats!

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I am leaving early Sunday morning to make my way back home. I am catching the train at 2 am from Belfort to Paris. Then I have to catch the metro to another train station in Paris to take the train to the airport. My plane leaves at 11:30 am. Then it is a 12 hour flight, and I get into LAX at 2:30 pm because of the time change. I am then taking the SuperShuttle to my Grandparents’ house where we are celebrating Christmas Eve.

All said and done it will be about 22 hours of traveling!!! It will be a really long trip, but well worth. It will be so nice to be back in the US for a while!!!! I will just have to work on getting out of my French mode!

1 comment:

Ree said...

Didn't read this blog before I brought out the "crackers"! Your hats in France look like a lot better quality than ours! I think it's a cool tradition.