Kim and I drove back to Eastern Washington Thursday evening for Christmas with the family. We got in late and immediately went to bed. The next day was a relaxing Christmas Eve day. We viewed the first few hundred of my dad’s Kenya photos and lounged around.
We went to church service a little early to help put out luminary candles. There were already plenty of people to help, but we set joined in anyway for something to do. It was a nice service and I got to see a lot of people that I hadn’t seen in a while. Daniel Meade was there and I hadn’t seem him in 3 years. In talking we discovered an amazing coincidence: Daniel is living in the same room in a house by the freeway that I was living in 3 years ago when I last saw him. Daniel had never seen the house and it’s all different people there now. I think it’s funny that he’s even living in the same room since the room was an attic with low ceilings. Daniel seems a little tall for that room.
We all went to bed and Santa Claus filled the stockings. The next morning we opened presents and ate candy. After cleaning up all the wrapping paper we left for Grandma’s house. Sarah got a pogo stick and we all had to try it. It was pretty hard actually. Sierra and Sarah put on a play where they painted faces upsidedown on their chins and did a comedy routine. We did a white elephant gift exchange and I ended up with the gift that I brought, a backpacking snowshovel.