Merry Christmas

Many people have asked how we celebrated Christmas this year. Even though we had work and it was not a very big celebration we still had some festivities. We actually had a very lovely Christmas dinner at our favorite hot pot where we opened some Christmas Eve presents. I got a necklace and some earrings from my parents and Rob got a very nice tie.

For Christmas morning we had a lovely breakfast with Rob's famous beautiful pineapple and we opened the rest of our presents. We had some wonderful Christmas cards, books (of course), and some other treasures from parents and grandparents. We also had a wonderful gift through email. Thank you all so much for your thoughtfulness!! 

Even though we are so far away we really felt close to family on this day and we love you all. Thank you for making time for our calls early in the morning when you could sleep in on your holiday. It meant a lot to us. 

Christmas evening we went to our bosses house for a Christmas feast. When Helena, our bosses wife, found out that I had some food allergies she called Rob to see what she could fix for us (the vegetarian and the kind of vegan). It was excellent. I couldn't believe how good everything was and it was pretty much all just fruit and vegetables. In Taiwan vegetarianism is very common and they know how to fix some mean vegetables and their fruit is so good. Yum!

It was a different, but very special Christmas for us. I think we will always remember this Christmas.