December 24, 2003
Home for Christmas
We're in Germany and we're okay.
The snow in Bucharest turned into a no-kidding blizzard, with 20 cm (8 inches) on the ground and heavy gusting winds by the time we reached the airport. Our plane boarded about an hour late, and then sat on the ground for nearly two hours. We got de-iced twice, and for a while it looked like we might not go at all.
But we did, and here we are.
Germans do their presents on Christmas Eve, by the way. So we got to see Alan's BIG eyes as he looked at the illuminated and decorated tree with the presents piled all around it...
Dinner was a wonderful turkey with all sorts of trimmings, followed by lots of beer and wine. If we hadn't been so tired, we would have stayed up a lot longer. As it was, we made an early evening of it... but it was still very, very nice.
And so to bed.
Posted by douglas at December 24, 2003 10:38 PM