Tag: holidays
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Thanksgiving 2017
We sat 41 people for dinner for Thanksgiving this year. Well, technically, 37 adults (if you include one 16 year old velociraptor) and 4 kids under 10. The menu was as follows: Thai pumpkin soup with gougeres Smoked turkey Roasted turkey with confit legs Stock-braised turkey legs Deep fried turkey Roasted pork shoulder Roast duck…
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Inn at Little Washington December 2016
Another one of our annual traditions is to go to the Inn at Little Washington after Christmas and spend the night. While Jim and I usually do it with just the two of us, this year, we took the kids. (I know—I want to come back in my next life as one of our kids,…
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Pyromaniacs enjoy!
I should have put this video up earlier, but last year, we had a lesson on how quickly a dry Christmas tree can burn (it’s a pyromaniac’s dream)…
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A Christmas Carol at Ford’s Theatre
We have an annual holiday tradition of going to see “A Christmas Carol” (this predates our time in Washington, DC and kids, for that matter). The bonus of seeing it in DC is that the play is performed at Ford’s Theatre, leading to the kids’ worst nightmare—a cultural event AND an educational event rolled into…
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Mele Kalikimaka (Christmas in Hawaii)
Due to the fortuitous circumstance of Christmas falling on a Sunday this year, the school’s holiday break included the week before Christmas. This allowed us the rare opportunity to spend Christmas not in Washington, DC (Jim’s business being calendar year-end intensive). To no one’s surprise, the family voted to spend Christmas in Honolulu. There is…
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Thanksgiving 2016
We sat 26 people down for Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday. Some family but also friends. Our menu was as follows: Thai pumpkin soup Smoked organic turkey Roasted organic turkey with confit legs Fried organic turkey Roasted shrimp with rosemary Roast duck Stuffing Chili-bathed sweet potatoes Dinner rolls Rice Kimchi Gravy Orange cranberry sauce Roasted carrots…
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Halloween 2016
We have a Halloween family tradition of over 10 years of inviting ourselves over to a friend’s house who has considerably more trick-or-treaters than we do (given that have zero). The kids decided (very reluctantly) that they were too old to go trick-or-treating by themselves and contented themselves with giving large amounts of candy to…
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4th of July in Nantucket
We were kindly invited by some good friends to join them in Nantucket for the 4th of July weekend. Nantucket is one of the very few places on the East coast that reminds of us God’s country (otherwise known as the West coast). There were magnificent sunsets: Fun 4th of July fireworks (lit off on…
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Inn at Little Washington Over The Holidays
Jim and I have a tradition we’ve done for many years, which is to go spend a night at the Inn at Little Washington between Christmas and New Year’s, just the two of us. (This does not go over well with the kids, who also want to dine there and spend the night, but we…
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Merry Christmas!
From our family to yours, Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year!!