Merry Christmas! We are chez Steve, at home, with the Brinkmans in Bowmanville and all is well. All is very well - great food, great company and good Christmas vibes all around - I love it! I don't want to be spending too much time on the computer while we're here, but I thought a short Christmas blog was in order. And so...Our trip over the big sea was uneventful - we awoke at 3:30am on Monday to get to the small Bucharest airport with plenty of time to catch our 6:15 flight to Frankfurt, and once we arrived there, only had 1 1/2 hours to kill before boarding AC 872 to Toronto. We were lucky enough (or tall enough) to snag some bulkhead emergency exit seats, and with personal TV sets and a wide range of movies, shows and music to choose from - so the eight-hour flight went pretty quickly. I watched Vicky Cristina Barcelona, a Woody Allen flick, and liked that (set in Barcelona with lots of Espanol - muy bien), and also watched Mio fratello e figlio unico (My Brother is an Only Child), a good Italian movie. Somewhere before we left for Bucharest I saw a preview for the new Brad Pitt movie and just felt MEH about watching another Hollywood movie, packed with the same make-up wearing, perfect skin and style and hair actors and actresses... so I opted for the Avant-Garde and Foreign film categories. Anyways! The travel was fine (minus the food - barf) and we arrived safe and sound in snowy Toronto! SO... we're ready for a fine fine Christmas, and are so happy to be here - so thankful that we were able to come home for the holidays. Of course I'm thinking a lot of my family over on the other side of this snowy country, with loads of snow of their own... and missing them, but we were lucky enough to spend Christmas there last year and, of course, are always together in spirit. Awwww... So Merry Christmas to all! I'm off to eat some cookies... yum!
Making Christmas Eve dessert a la Greece - Baclava!
Father and Son out shoveling snow...
Erin and Fred
Gathering around the goodies!!
Cheers! Merry Christmas!
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