Since we were in CA for Thanksgiving we spent Christmas and New years on the east coast. On Christmas Eve Andrew's company had a nice lunch at a nice Chinese restaurant (which I got to attend) and then we finished up our last minute shopping. Andrew went to church with his family that evening while I went to rescue the dog (we hadn't planned on being gone all afternoon). Christmas day was loooonnnnggg. We woke up at about 7:30 and exchanged our gifts to one another (I gave Andrew: pj's, running jacket, running store gift certificate, 2 x box games, a tie, a roll aboard duffel bag, and tickets to a Capitals hockey game. Andrew gave me: awesome Bose noise canceling headphones, my favorite perfume, and a subscription to 3 different bridal magazines). After playing a bit of video games, we headed over to the Gibby's house and opened gifts there. Andrew then played board games with his brothers for about 3 1/2 hours and a little after 3pm Andrew's brother's wife and her family arrived. We had a nice group of 10 for a wonderful dinner of duck. The night ended at about 10:00 p.m.
Early Saturday Andrew and I took a trip to the American history museum. Unfortunately, many of the exhibits are not on display and after an hour of opening it was super crowded. On Saturday night Andrew's brother, Aaron came over, ate pizza, and played video games till the wee hours and on Sunday we all went to the Capitals hockey game in D.C.
On New year's eve we went to a wonderful dinner at an Italian restaurant across from the Kennedy Center. Then we went to the Kennedy Center for "Legally Blonde". It was a very cute show. Parts of it were written much different from the movie. Very entertaining show. To bring the new year in we went over to the Gibby's and toasted with champagne and hugs at midnight. Overall it was a lovely holiday season, but I am looking forward to next year in California!
