Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Christmas Day

Christmas Day

We were invited to another family party for Christmas Day. Only it turns out the first part of the day, the first couple of hours of the party, was just for us, dinner with our friends Giovanni and his beautiful wife Ciamara and daughter Xiera. (I hoped I spelled those right.) The more of the family – Ciamara’s mother and father and her sister and niece and nephew – came later. They ate of course, but the dinner was for us. We were so honored.

We’ve quickly learned that one of the “rules” of being a good guest is you are expected to eat your share of the food the hostess has gone to great lengths to prepare. It’s not hard to ear your share and then some, believe me. We have been treated to some fabulous food here.

We did get to the beach for a little while, swimming in the morning, just walking (walking off some of that fabulous dinner) later in the evening. The moon is a waxing crescent right now, just a sliver. But even that sliver is so bright out on the beach.

We hope all of you had a wonderful Chrismas. If you’re away from your family (like we are), we hope you’re lucky enough (like we are) to have wonderful friends to be with.

Merry Christmas!

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