Spring

Spring has sprung... MERRY CHRISTMAS!

It's been quite strange preparing for the holiday season this year. Each day it gets a little warmer and the days get longer while a quick check on the news back home reveals 8 inches of snow on the ground... and emails from friends share stories of cozy fires in the living room and fresh mugs of hot cocoa.

We decorated our Christmas tree yesterday... then walked down to Pier St, ate pizza on the patio, walked along the beach, and walked home with tasty ice cream cones. It's hard to believe that Christmas is a little over a week away! We keep hoping for a string of holiday movies such as "Love Actually," "A Christmas Story," "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation," or "A Charlie Brown Christmas." If we were in the states we probably would have seen each of these 3 times since Thanksgiving... but these movies don't dominate the airwaves here. :(

Christmas "down under" is going to take a little getting used to. Maybe we'll just have to make a sand-snowman this year!!!