Merry Christmas Everybody!!

I hope you all had a great time celebrating Christmas. We certainly enjoyed spending it with Doug's Dad and his big family. But, let me start from where I left of last time.

I can't believe that we have been in Mission for two months now already. Time really seems to be flying this time. At last I have the kitchen arranged in a way that I don't have to move five things just to get to one bowl. It took me a while, but I think it will be a lot easier getting to things, specially when we are traveling again and I just don't have the patience to move everything around just to get to one dish. It does feel good to get something accomplished. I padded myself on the back :-).

Since we started traveling we have been collecting hat pins. When we had our house in New Jersey we collected magnets from the places we went to and they all ended up on our fridge. Well, a RV fridge is not magnetic so we found some nice hat pins and in the last rig I just pinned them to the curtains. Well, then we had to get a new rig and of course this rig does not have curtains. So for the last few months all my hat pins have been in a Ziploc bag waiting for me to figure out something that will work. After a few debates on what to do we decided on putting up a cork board. Now Doug does not like the look of cork board, so I bought a piece of fabric and lined the board with it. I have to say it looks pretty good and it sure was fun to look at the pins again and remember the places where we got them from.


Earlier this year we went to see the Alamo and the Riverwalk in San Antonio before we came down to Mission. We like it so much, we promised ourselves that we would come back when they have the place decorated with all the Christmas lights. There is over 120,000 lights installed and it takes them two months to do this. Well, since we were going up to Austin for Christmas anyway, it seemed like a good idea to spend an evening in San Antonio to check out all the lights. So on Tuesday we went to see the lights at the Riverwalk.




This was the view from our room on the 26th floor of the Marriott Riverwalk.



Wednesday we went to Austin to spend Christmas Eve with Doug's Dad and his family. Chris (Doug's Dad) has married into a big family and by the time everybody arrived we were about seventeen people. Dinner was delicious and you should have seen the floor after we all unwrapped our presents :-). Here are just some of the people in attendance.



Today we drove back home and are now recuperating from a great holiday party.