xmas new year update

well everyone i know it has been ages since an update, but not too much exciting going on around edinburgh. first of all i celebrated xmas eve with my friend from MN Bethany, and Chantel. it was great we made pizza drank wine and had traditional mince pies with cream, great craic! then xmas day was spent with my coworker Fiona. it was just lovely for her and her family to invite me to their xmas. i brought a lentil loaf for my veg entree, and apparently fi was afraid there would not be enough food for me to eat so she got a whole bunch of veg things, really making the effort, super sweet. we had a 3 course dinner with starters, soup, then main meal and then dessert. we also had these cool things called crackers, cardboard tubes that make a really loud crack when you pull them apart with the person next to you like a wishbone and then there is a paper crown, a prize (a nail clipper or something like this) and a really dry joke. it was really fun. boxing day i spent doing a little bit of shopping at ocean terminal, where i work. so i got a few things i really needed. then it was 3 days of work and then the weekend again. not too much happened on new years around here, gale winds and freezing wind pretty much canceled the good time, and a migrane for me so i just went to bed, i know not exciting. then the 1st and 2nd i went to a few galleries, my gallery hop of sorts, it was great lots of fun stuff, including a room with over 286 cardboard churches of the churches of Edinburgh, super amazing and super cool when you see replicas of all 286 places of worship here in edinburgh. well guys my time on the free computer is up but i just wanted to say, i am alive and well, the library was closed and during the time between xmas and new years you never know what might be open! so i made due with what i had available to me.

xoxo,
christie