Wrap Up

This is the holiday wrap-up, back to the usual day-to-day after this. And, I hope that everyone has safe and happy plans for tonight, New Year's Eve. My plans are to eat a good dinner and watch a kid movie with Steph and Mike's family, then be home early. Maybe write a little. Reflect a little. Maybe just go to bed. I hope not, that last one, going to bed, but I know myself.

On Christmas Eve, we met friends at the Duke train display at the Museum Center. We thought it might not be crowded on the day before Christmas, but we were wrong.
We went again yesterday and the entire museum center was incredibly crowded. I'm hoping that people who came earlier just for the trains realized what a treasure that place is.

After a quick lunch, we headed for Covington, where Sarah and Winnie treated us to a carriage ride. It was my first time and was a really lovely family event. To make it all the better, the weather wasn't especially cold. We went by Chez Nora and got to explain to Nora about the restaurant with its name meaning "house of Nora."

Christmas Eve and Steph and Mike's was a blur of wonderful food and lots of gifts. We passed my neighbor's house on the way - they have a count-down clock and it was almost time for Christmas.

We went back on Christmas morning for the Santa reveal, then Steph's family left for Greenville and the celebration there.

Sarah, Winnie, and I came home, decided on a movie, put the previously-made frozen lasagna in the oven, and took off for Newport on the Levee. We met friends for The Muppet Movie, which we decided was a perfect Christmas Day movie. We've done the movie-on-Christmas-Day for several years now. It's so fun to see people happy and cheery and often dressed up in new clothes.

And that's it, the wrap up to a truly wonderful Christmas. The day after was a project day, then came the packing and the good-byes.