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December 29, 2006
Colorado. (Part Three)
Friday: Ate dinner (crowded warmly into the kitchen...it was a nice size when Sister and I were girls, but now with 6 adults it's a tight fit!). Unloaded some stuff from our cars. Prepped for the Salt family's coming.*
Salts came over and the girls are old enough now to recognize us and love on us right away instead of taking time to warm to us. We had a nice little meal with them and reminisced and planned and chatted and they opened Christmas presents. Little girls are so cute opening their little gifts.
The Salts were flying to Buffalo the next morning, and Mrs. Salt wanted the girls to have baths, and everyone else wanted to watch the tape of Office (the TV show)...and I really didn't care. So I went home with Mrs. and the girls and I helped with bathtime. Then we brushed hair and put them to bed. They did a good job and I enjoyed it.
THEN all the rest of my fam came over (bearing Starbucks-caffeine!) and we played The Seafarers of Catan, an addictive and enjoyable came that's a cross between a board game and a role-playing game. More board game than RPG, though. Mr. Salt won of course. I pooped out at about 1:30, and I only intended to rest my eyes on the couch for a little time, but woke at the end when Mr. Salt was celebrating his victory.
Saturday: slept in. Lunch at Yakitori, yummy Japanese chicken kabobs. Quick stop at Barnes & Noble for last minute gifts (I bought Apples to Apples with some of my birthday money) and the line was looooong...tag-team line waiting is the way to do it. Why shop alone? There's no need. Another quick stop at SuperTarget (I looked for comfypants, but there were none that flattered), and I must point out that tag team shopping is the way to go, but it works much better if all members of the team have either walkie-talkies or cellphones.
THEN we ran up to the North Side (farther north than the new hospital even!) to see the construction site of Sister and BiL's new house. It was so nice to see their new nest! It's a beautiful house and I can just picture it for them for years. They are closing on their house today (29th) and I really miss them. I do, and I want to be there and help situate their stuff in their home before Sister starts her internship in Denver on Tuesday (2nd). Sigh. I miss them right now...but I got to see the new house and I can at least picture their home now.**
We went home, had dinner (I ordered Jade Dragon Chinese food...Dad picked it up on a field trip errand run he did), and played Apples to Apples.
Which takes us to Christmas Eve morning...
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* Remember the Salts? Father and Mother, two daughters, we spent Fourth of July at the Lake with them? They're good friends of ours and we love them. Mr. and Mrs. Salt are like brother and sister to us...Mrs. Salt was a bridesmaid of mine...their daughters are congruent in age and personality to me and Sister. Yeah.
** I must write at some point about me and Sister. We didn't grow up great friends and it's been some time in the Neutral Zone, but we've finally broken through to friendship. What a delight, and what an irony now that she's moved back to the Homeland (Colorado). Sheesh.
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