X-MAS 2K10!!!

So Christmas has come and gone. This year JH and I had a fairly subdued Christmas, which was nice. Several years back we attempted to go out to eat on Christmas Eve. It was a disaster! There were a million people who had the same idea, so we couldn't get into any restaurant, and then when we finally did, they only had overpriced "set menus," so that night on our way home we vowed never to make the same mistake. Since then we have done Christmas at home.

This year was no exception. On Christmas Eve, after many hours of pretending to work at work, I headed home where JH and I prepared steak and assorted side-dishes for dinner. Dinner with wine happened before our outstandingly decorated fake Christmas tree with some festive tunes playing on our stereo. The weather lady said it would snow but it didn't. It was bitterly cold which was lame, but we were inside so it didn't really matter.

The next morning we got up and I baked some muffins and brewed some coffee. JH and I then exchanged gifts. We keep it pretty simple, but I did end up with the 25th Anniversary Super Mario Bros. Collection and Smash Bros. for Wii (I don't know what the English titles are since I have got Korean versions of said games).

After opening presents we watched A Christmas Story, which somehow I'd never showed to JH before, and some sort of Home Alone marathon playing on cable and spent our afternoon thusly. In the late afternoon we traveled to the opposite side of the city to visit JH's sister and her family.

Christmas marked the 100th day after her sister's second baby was born, which for some reason is still an event some Koreans see fit to celebrate even though infant mortality rates are now nearly 0%. So we had some food there and gave gifts to neices.

We stayed for a couple hours which was incredibly draining. Infants and toddlers are loud and tiring, and after a few hours I was more than ready to go home. When we did finally get home we both fell asleep almost immediately, thus putting an end to our Christmas.