Merry/Happy Christmas!!!

Christmas Eve in Brussels... we're here in our apartment. A tiny lasagna in the oven. Delicious salad in the making. Apple-crisp waiting. A few Christmas presents under the tree... err, TV stand (we don't have a tree). All in all, a quiet Christmas Eve. "Taking 'er easy". Like last year, though at that point we were in the middle of packing up to move to Arizona. We're not sure if we'll open the presents tonight (a la European style) or tomorrow morning (a la USA style). Tomorrow we're doing the US Christmas thing at the house of one of Kristen's former classmates. A pot-luck dinner. We're bringing mashed potatoes, drinks, and cups. Not very creative, but that's OK. We were more creative this past Saturday when we had a Scandinavian Jul-bord (Christmas Smorgasbord) with a couple of my Swedish colleagues and some others. Brought Danish "brune kartofler" and some Belgian Christmas beer. Brune Kartofler are little peeled potatoes that have been glazed in a butter/sugar sauce. Anyway...

We just want to say Merry Christmas to all of our family and friends. We miss you and we wish we could be with you. If there were just a way to collect all of you into one spot!

With warm wishes,

-RP- & ~K


By the way,
Some nice festive Christmas e-Cards... make sure you have the sound turned on!

Santa & His Reindeer

X-Mas Snow Globe