my family came over friday the 22nd for a holiday/birthday get together this year. We had appetizers, fruit, cheese, sausage, crackers, and cake and ice cream. This year I had an angel food cake with strawberries and vanilla bean ice cream. I opened gifts, in which I received Lost on Dvd, a cool Charles Wysocki puzzle, a fuzzy calico stuffed cat, some earings, and a bird house. All of which were really cool and I loved. Then we played Pictionary!
Saturday the 23rd we lounged around and do a whole lot. I made food ahead of time for Christmas. We went to the Christmas service at church at 5:30 and had a good time. I had wanted to go to a movie on my birthday but because the movie I wanted to see was not on, on my birthday we decided to go to a late showing of Casino Royale after church at 9:50. Casino Royale was VERY good, and Daniel Craig who played the new James Bond, I must say is very HOT and a very good James Bond. It was also a very good story line. Both Ryan and I liked this movie.
Sunday Dec 24th, was my birthday. I turned 25. We slept in and lounged around some more. Then we had pancakes and maple syrup with scrambled eggs for breakfast. Ryan played a happy birthday song on the stereo for me, by Ronnie Millsap. I had never heard it but it was sweet, and we danced to the music. Later we went out for supper and had Fazolis. I opened my birthday gifts, which were a stuffed, cute penguin, a bird feeder I had wanted and another Charles Wysocki puzzle.
We went to ME's Zoo later to see it all lit up with lights, paid to go in and fed the animals. Feeding the bears was fun, I'd put a piece of dried bread food down their tube, tinkle, tinkle tinkle, plop, you'd hear the food go down the tube, the bear would put out its paw to stop the bread as it came out the end, then with a flick of his tongue it would be gone. The other bear was not so lucky, the bread got stuck in his tube, and he stuck his nose in to smell for it. Then after looking at it a while he picked up the end of the tube and clanked it loudly over and over on the concrete till the bread fell out.
I love the little goats, with their mwaaaa mwaaa. There was one who rammed over and over the shed in their pen, with its horns. There was a baby so small the bread chunks were too huge for it to eat. We saw Omar the camel, who looked like his fur was a rug falling apart. I fed a bread chunk to a beautiful white swan in the near dark pond. She had to soak the bread in water several times to be able to finally swallow it. I also fed some bread to a hideous pot bellied pig who reminded me of my friend Jill who used to have a pet pot bellied pig.
When we got home we watched A Charlie Brown Christmas.
On Christmas we got up and opened our gifts, got ready and went to Ryan's parents house. We had a decent meal with my parents and his parents and grandparents and great aunt, then we all opened gifts together and then lounged around for a while before going home. Ryan and I watched the rest of Charlie Brown, and talked about Christmas before going to bed....
That was my holiday memories...
