1. Sarah and I got to check out Enchant, which is this massive light display/maze/Christmas bazaar they’ve set up in Nationals Park. We both knew it was going to be a little cheesy, but were hoping for cheesy fun (as opposed to cheesy lame), and it was. We drank cocoa and I ate a pretzel with raclette cheese on it (so it was literally cheesy, as well as figuratively). We found all Santa’s reindeer and told him what we wanted for Christmas, and we enjoyed all the lights and generally had a lot of fun.
2. My office had a holiday party this week, with a white elephant/Yankee swap-type gift exchange. The person who ended up with my silly gift seemed pleased (she was the one who could steal from anyone at the end and instead opted to keep the Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine), and when I offered the equally silly Taco-saurus Rex taco holder to a younger coworker after the fact, she nearly hugged me.
3. My volleyball team came in second for the league this time around, but we remarked afterwards that the team who won hadn’t really seemed like they were having fun, and that if those were the two choices (it’s a false dichotomy, but go with me), we’d pick to lose, but enjoy ourselves together. We stayed after everyone else went home to play 3-on-3, and then a bunch of us headed out to the bar to hang out for a couple more hours.
How about you? What’s been beautiful in your world lately?
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I’m feeling a little under the weather, so I’m going to post this with only a general link to Rudi’s blog. He’s driving from Salt Lake City and arrived in Kansas tonight.
We did it! Or maybe time did it, despite our howling wildly and clinging to its ankles. Either way, we’ve made it to the final week of the Advent season.
Behind today’s door, we have a second post from raidergirl3 at an adventure in reading. She shares memories of Christmas visits to her grandmother and includes one of her Nan’s recipes for us to try. (For those of you don’t know, raidergirl3 is the longest-running participant in the Virtual Advent Tour, which I’m pretty sure is how we “met” oh so many years ago now.)
Before you head off to her blog, though, make sure you listen to the song above. I like to find a Canadian song to pair up with raidergirl3’s post every year. This year, I found a link to “Dear Old Santa,” written and performed by Liah Clayton, a 16-year-old girl from Prince Edward Island, who is donating the song’s proceeds to CBC’s Feed a Family Campaign.
I’ll see you back here tomorrow.
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Before I send you off today I wanted to acknowledge that today is Gaudete Sunday, the third Sunday in Advent. Here is “Gaudete” from Erasure, which might be a little more synth-heavy than you’re used to:
Behind Door #15 we have a post from Constance at Staircase Wit, who shares a game that her family plays with their Christmas gifts.
See you back here tomorrow!
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