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Merry Christmas

sjames — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:00:01 +0000

We want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! We couldn’t send out cards, so we wanted to post some pictures recently taken around Prague.

Bridge Community Christmas party

sjames — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:00:15 +0000

We had a great time yesterday getting together with some people that come to our Bridge Community Sunday Gatherings and also some of our Czech friends. We actually did some grilling even though it was only about 10 degrees outside. The women did a cookie exchange. We’ve got cookies for the next week. Yummy! Also, we played the game “I have never…” It’s a game that mixes musical chairs and truthful statements about yourself that start with the words “I have never…” It was fun getting to know some of the people we don’t know that well. Also, each of the children received a gift. Check out a few photos from the party.

Nurnberg Christmas Market

sjames — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:43:22 +0000

We had an opportunity to go to Nurnberg, Germany yesterday to see the famous Christmas market. It was beautiful to say the least. Check out some photos here.

apple

sjames — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:54:02 +0000

We just had to post a picture of this lone apple outside our window. It’s hanging on when all it’s buddies have fallen…

Christmas tree

sjames — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 11:27:40 +0000

One of the joys of this time of year is putting up the Christmas tree…well it’s suppose to be. They don’t put trees out here usually until later in December, at least wide spread that is. But, we found one, about 30 minutes away by public transportation and a four block walk to our place. We bought a plastic tree stand as well. The boys were excited! We get the tree in the house, move the furniture, get the stand ready….and well, the trunk is too big for the stand. We have to wait until we could get a small hand saw from a friend the next day. The boys were so disappointed. By the way, have you ever tried to saw off some of a fur tree going against the grain? It’s not fast or easy. We finally sawed off the sides we needed to get it to fit into the stand. As we started looking through our Christmas trunk we found many broken items from the flight over but…no lights. Of course I’m worn out from all the sawing and it was already late, but I knew how disappointed the boys would be if we put it off another day…again. I knew they wanted to decorate so I headed off to the store 30 minutes away. It took a while to get back because the trams were running slow. I got home, took the lights out…and low and behold, they’re CURTAIN LIGHTS. I’ve never heard of curtain lights either! At this point, I’m thinking they ARE going on this tree. We figured out a way to turn them sideways and get them looking pretty decent. The boys finally got to decorate, and all is well. At least we will all have a fond memory of the year we had “curtain lights” on the tree.

Thanksgiving

sjames — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:56:12 +0000

We had a great time at our friend’s, David & Renata, apartment. The food was awesome. It’s great to have good friends when you have to be away from family during a holiday. It was neat being with people from other countries…there were people from America, Czech Republic, The Netherlands and Bulgaria. Check out a few photos we put up…