This will be a pretty long post as I've been saving things up till I got around to posting! Busy busy week as usual, we had our work Christmas Party this week with a theme of "What I wanted to be when I grew up" (the English are obsessed with costume or "fancy dress" parties). I hadn't planned on going until the last minute so I'm not dressed but my two office mates did. Later I snapped a shot of them in our bay in the Cryptogamic Herbarium ("Crypt").
Hannah is wearing her "thinking cap" leftover from her Christmas party costume and Elina is gloriously draped in barcodes for our specimens. Just outside and to the left of the stone windows you see is our very own gargolye. I love this buidling!Speaking of which, I made Patrick keep his promise of taking me to see Harry Potter (he had free movie tickets and Chris has trouble following the plots so we agreed to see it together) and as he had a half day of work Friday I made him come to the Museum so I can show him the behind the scenes tour.
These monkies crawl up the arch near the steps to our door, such detail! The museum was closed to the public Friday so we pretty much had the place to ourselves to poke in the neat corners, open the old books in the library and generally enjoy the place. Afterwards we had a snack at Carlucci's, a place I always see on my way to work outside the bus and wanted to get in. Then we saw Potter which was AMAZING! See it if you haven't already!
Later that evening we did presents via Skype with my parents and spoke to my sister this morning. She showed us her "Chocolate of the Month Club" gift from her boyfriend...... NOT!!! A few hours later she called us back from her boyfriend's parents house and showed us this:
The chocolate of the month was a decoy! (of course I'd prefer that to a ring but still) Congratulations Cat and Jeff! Now you just have to decide on a day! After having a traditional American Christmas dinner (Turkey, potatoes, sweet potato casserole with marshmallows, cranberry sauce, stuffing and pumpkin pie) we sat playing with our toys, here is Patrick on Guitar Hero and Chris simultaneously playing with his laptop and his new IPAD which I gave him for Christmas, which we've all had a few turns on... it is SUPPOSED to be for him.
The most fun toy tonight has been the long paper roll from the wrapping paper we finished off this season, we are using it as a microphone, megaphone, telescope and giant comedy ear horn....... ah the simple things in life.
Probably the bottle of champagne Patrick gave me as part of my amazing Hotel Chocolate gift box of which I'm on my second flute of doesn't help....
Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you are all having some kind of fun or at least catching up on rest and relaxation! Off to Cyprus on Monday, will report on that soon!
We have mostly been sitting around this Christmas. I'm getting over a bit of a head cold again. Sleeping in, sitting around, and staying out of the out of season Santa Barbara rain has been quite nice this week. Maybe we'll do something more exciting for New Year's... maybe. Merry Christmas!
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