So it is weird this year - being away from home and family ---- can you believe I made it 36 years without ever being away at Christmas? I guess it was bound to happen eventually. :)
If I couldn't be home, I guess I had the next best thing - a great day in a wonderful community of friends in Jerusalem!
These are my friends, Ben and Stacie. They have graciously let me stay with them for about ten days while we needed to be out of our apartment (long story). How do you like our "tree"? Several local olive trees made a 'donation' and voila! A Christmas tree. We like it.
We had a big midday meal at our neighbors house...
Meet Vernon and Aubrey....my roommates for next semester. And Anna too, but she isn't back from the U.S. yet.
Jana and me...fellow CIUers.
Can you call it Christmas without having a large, paper mache lily to sit on? I don't know....except to say that its the best white elephant gift I have ever seen.
The boys had a pudding eating contest...
The aftermath....
That's all for now....Merry Christmas everyone!! :)
1 comment:
Looks like a wonderful Christmas to me! Christmases away from home can be bittersweet ... if you're with good people, you can create some pretty beautiful memories.
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