I've been busy, but here is a run-down of the holidays.
I am not much of a decorator to begin with and lack of general furniture prevented me from pulling out piles of ribbon or buying that olive wood nativity I was eyeing in Fell's Point. To put it succinctly, we have a 5 bedroom row home and only enough furniture to fill a 2 bedroom apartment. We have four chairs, 3 of them match and two of them are in the office. If we ever have company I guess we could haul them downstairs to the dining room...So there wasn't much to decorate anyway. We contemplated a tree, but we have a new member of the family who I was loathe to introduce to a Christmas tree with shiny hanging objects...enter Raven.
She is an adorable Bombay that we adopted from the Baltimore SPCA http://mdspca.org a week before Thanksgiving. I didn't realize how much I missed having a pet. She is playful, and affectionate and exactly what we needed. So instead of precarious decorations we put a handmade wreath on the front door (from the 32nd St Farmer's Market that operates YEAR ROUND!) and we hung up the two Christmas cards we received this year, ahem family, and then we started to pack...
Our first holiday journey involved a transcontinental flight to Southern California for Thanksgiving. We took the city in style, meaning in true LA fashion we drove everywhere and ate some amazing food. My favorite experience from the trip was visiting the Queen Mary in Long Beach
http://queenmary.com the retired super-luxe ocean liner from the 1930's, Drinking bloody mary's in the observation bar overlooking a windy Long Beach was amazing, and crawling through the Soviet submarine docked next to the Queen Mary was really interesting, I just don't recommend wearing a dress.
The next day more family arrived and we drove into the maze of Los Angeles, showing M the sights from the ever seedy Venice Beach,
and the snotty Beverly Hills.
We returned home for a brief 3 weeks and headed out again but this time to chilly Milwaukee where the beer is good and the bratwurst is better. The coffee is actually damn good as well.
We had a great time but our plans for sledding were foiled by sleety rain and standing engagements, but there is always hope for this year!
Hope you had a wonderful holiday season ~ what are your new year's resolutions?
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