Yay Christmas was fun!

Its been busy around here, as I'm sure it has been for most people. Anna and I headed off to my Uncle Bob and Aunt Molly's house for the annual Christmas Eve get together which is always a great time. The food this year was several lasagnas, baguettes with pesto, bruschetta, plus many other sides, munchies, sweets, wine and booze. Good food, good company, can't really go wrong there.

We spent Christmas day at my parents house with my Grandma and Grandpa Harvey and that was also a great time. Consisted of more munchies and the main course of mom's homemade clam chowder which is ridiculously good. We had some of our favorite wine with it: Starling Castle Riesling, which is a nice German white wine.

We all exchanged gifts and the big gift from mom and dad for Anna and I was a portable GPS unit so we can finally go Geocaching properly. Its the perfect unit, good size, easy to use. Later that night at home, I was playing around with it and saw on their website they had some updates available for it. I ran them and they locked up, even after half an hour. I had to pull the power to the GPS, then it would not turn back on.

I didn't have it in me to troubleshoot it, so instead Anna and I watched an amazing documentary on coral reefs. It was originally filmed with IMAX cameras that play back on 10 story high screens, but it was converted to High Definition for watching at home. Let me say, the picture quality was the absolute most beautiful thing I'd ever seen featuring footage from Tahiti, French Polynesia, and Australia.

Then today, I managed to figure out a way to revive the dead GPS unit and it is now fully functional, which made me very happy!

Anna is up at her parents house this weekend to celebrate Christmas with family. I was unable to come with since I'm unable to get time off during this time of the year. I'm not too upset about it since thats just the way it is and thats the way it has been for years, so I'm used to not being able to travel over the holidays.

And to close out, the weather here today is crazy. Its been above freezing all day and a lot of the snow has melted. will be nice to get the roads a little more cleaned up. Its time for me to warm up some leftover clam chowder, I'm starving!