Christmas 2009

Nuke's parents were out of town for Christmas so he came up to Sanford to go with me to NoVa to spend Christmas with the family.

We left around 1030 on Christmas Eve. Traffic wasn't too bad until we got near Fredricksburg. After that it was pretty heavy with some stop and go.

My nephews were in a Nativity thing at Vienna Presbyterian; so we drove directly there. Got there about a half hour before the start so we went across the street and got some Starbucks.

The service was pretty full. We sat in back so the families of the kids in the pageant could take the closer seats.

Plus, I didn't want anyone around me to get hurt when I got struck by lightening for being in church.

Afterwards we all went to a restaurant for dinner: Me, Nuke, brother-in-law, sister, niece and her hubby, and the 2 auxiliary nephews. Chinese Christmas Eve dinner should be a tradition. It was great.

Christmas morning ADD and RDD has everybody over for breakfast and to watch the kids tear into their loot.

None of my photos turned out all that great.

Afterwards Nuke and I went into Reston to see Sherlock Holmes. OK but not that great. Wait for Netflix - skip paying admission at the theater.

Christmas dinner was at ACH and GAH. As usual it was excellent and a lot of fun to have everybody together.

 

Drove back to NC on Saturday. I spent the evening watching Bowl games. The UNC - Pittsburgh game was about as close as you could get. Interesting note - NC State beat both UNC and Pittsburgh this season.