Merry Christmas!

Not much text today. Ridge’s birthday is tomorrow and I’m keeping myself pretty busy. We’ve got a group of his friends coming to play and eat cake, so there’s lots to do.
Here’s a group of photos for everyone. The main one is Ridge and Holt curled up on the couch watching an episode of The Muppet Show.
This is Kentucky Fried Chicken (known here as “Kentucky”) as they prepare Christmas Eve dinner baskets. Roast chicken is customary dinner fare here for the night before Christmas. They shut down the dinning room in this little Kentucky so they have more room to prep the orders.
Fried Chicken
Speaking of chicken, here is the one we bought for our Christmas dinner. They only sell whole chickens for a few days out of the entire year. Note that this one was a whopping 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds). It cost us 1050 yen, which is just under $10. All the chickens were the same size. They had a more expensive chicken to choose from; it was smoked and cost a meager 5,000+ yen (about $45).
Cornish game hen or chicken? You decide.
A student from one of my adult English classes gave us a goodie bag. Inside, among other things, was this beautiful bottle of wine, bottled not too far from Nishiokoppe.
Beautiful wine
She also made some origami Christmas ornaments and miniature God’s Eyes (I taught her English class how to make them). Aren’t they just beautiful? She’s a wonderful, thoughtful lady.
Handmade ornaments
This is Holt on Christmas day, peeking out of the cardboard play house which Santa brought. Ridge had requested a remote controlled, flying eagle, but he was very happy with his cardboard box.
Hello! Like my box?
Happy Holidays to everyone, and check back in a few days for more photos!
2 Comments:
I have never done this before so I hope you get this. Carol and I have been teaching an assessment class and I promised her I would send her your blog "address".....we have used some of your training materials in the class.
It sounds like you are going to Texas next year from your snow comment.....are you coming back to Juneau?
Toni-Jo
I have never done this before so I hope you get this. Carol and I have been teaching an assessment class and I promised her I would send her your blog "address".....we have used some of your training materials in the class.
It sounds like you are going to Texas next year from your snow comment.....are you coming back to Juneau?
Toni-Jo
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