Mom and Dad tell me that this Christmas with its pink and teal streamer decorated palm trees and techno "Silent Night" blaring from one of the tourist CD stores was a bit unconventional, but it was my first one so I still want to share it with you.
We started with breakfast at our hotel because it was included, and who wants to pass up free toast on vacation? Then, we had second breakfasts at a restaurant with chairs on the beach of Phewa Lake where Billy Bowman played in the Christmas-light adorned cactus and I tried to eat the cactus.
Mom and Dad ate crepes and good coffee instead of the cactus. Then, we went back to the Shangri-La Children's Home where we'd met ten beautiful kids and played games the day before. They had shared their dal baht with us for Christmas Eve supper. For Christmas, we brought some little school things and helped them decorate a sign for the house. Their smiles were a great gift!
Later, Mom and Dad packed for their trek and ate pepperoni pizza in the hotel room while I gave them the gift of an early bed time.
Like I said, Mom and Dad thought it strange with no tree or snow or carols, but it was nice to get to listen to the Christmas stories without thinking about unwrapping things. I have to say, I really would have liked to be with grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins and to eat those Ritz-peanut butter-chocolate cookies, keuken and maybe even fruit soup. Hopefully this just makes my first Christmas with extended family even more special. What do you say Carlson and Davidson families, December 2012 here?
Great 1st Christmas, Bow-Baby. And, wow, the pressure is on for Christmas at a cabin in the mountains! : )
ReplyDeleteWouldn't that be great! We'll bring the potato sausage and lutefisk. We really missed you guys!
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