December 26th, 2023

  Merry Day after Christmas to all of you!!  Hope your holiday was absolutely perfect ;)

We were busier than normal this Holiday season.  I worked more than usual at the museum, for one thing.  Apparently there is a lot of flu and Covid and lord knows what other germies lurking around and people are getting sick! Poor babies.   So coverage was needed!  The museum gift shop, by the way, was madly busy!  It's as if we were only just this year discovered as a place to shop for cool stuff.  

Tim and I actually went to one Christmas Party this year too!  It's unusual, for us, but we are big fans of the people who threw the party and already were familiar with everyone else who was invited so that was lovely.  It was just  a little dessert bash so it was easy to knock out a few batches of brownies to bring along (everyone brought dessert by the way, not just me).  The wife of the hosting couple, Debbie, is so very artistic and creative and just has that perfect eye for decorating.  Their home looks like something out of a magazine as did they Christmas Tree!  Wow! It was gorgeous!  So we had a very nice time, chatting, admiring, eating goodies and sitting around their firepit.  Our hostess provided everyone with take away boxes and we were encouraged to load up on the goodies for the very short walk home.  It was a lovely evening.

On Saturday, we had our annual Christmas before Christmas with Joy and Bob.  It was at their place this year.  The building they live in is called, The Vue.  And this is the View from the Vue:

We ate and talked and laughed and talked and played Christmas Trivia and talked and then went on a Trolley Ride to see lights!  Woohoo!

The Trolley joined the steady line of cars winding through area neighborhoods that are seriously into Christmas!  Wow!  Some folks are really creative and festive!  I cannot imagine how much time and effort was invested in some of the displays!  I don't even want to think about their electric bills and so I won't.   I only took a few photos. here are two:

Sunday we relaxed a lot but also took a walk over to the arboretum to admire our own local Christmas decorations during the day!    Another day we will go over at night to see it lit up.   I will do a different post on just the arboretum except one picture so we can all admire the museum where I work in the background.  

Yesterday,  Christmas Day, we woke up late, relaxed some more, then headed over to spend part of the day with some dear friends. We talked and laughed, we admired their tree and their gifts,  we ate some really good food and played with their kitties.  And obviously, we had a wonderful time!  By the time we got back, it was naptime for us.  Maybe too much good food?  Very Likely!!   We also made it a point to stop by the jetty.  It rained nearly all day so it was a gloomy, wet and cooler than normal Christmas Day which did not dampen our enthusiasm at all.

2023 was a terrific Christmas Season all the way through, top to bottom, side to side and beginning to end.  Hope to hear that yours was the same.

Merry Day after Christmas Everybody!