Christmas day in the Netherlands.

Christmas was different this year. It turned out to be nice though. We made the best of it pretty well I’d have to say but it still made me never want be away on Christmas again!

In the morning we had a lovely breakfast/gift exchange. Brittany, Mauricio, Joelle, Adrienne, and I all exchanged small gifts. There had been debate if we had wanted to do gifts but Brittany and I thought it was crucial to making it feel the most like Christmas and I really think without our morning get together this day would not have been as good. We had a very leisurely breakfast and opened our gifts. It was really fun. I got loads of candy and a cute hat Joelle thought screamed Brenda.

After that we had two shows. Everyone was in really high spirits at work so it was actually a very enjoyable work day. I feel like everyone got the bad days out of the way earlier and today was just a fun day. I got to skype with Mom and Deetee in-between show which was so nice. And they sent me some of my favorite Christmas tunes to listen to.

We had a dinner later which was not as amazing as I was hoping for. The dessert was crazy too. It was such a build up because it wasn’t put out til an hour after the meal so we were all waiting in anticipation. It was buffet style so we had to wait til there were done setting up the whole thing to start. It was an array of all ice cream. Sounds good but there were some weird flavors in there. There were things that looked like cakes but no, they were ice cream! There were balls and and all different crazy ways of presenting ice cream. Some were really tasty but there were just so many choices and you didn’t know which would be good. I filled a whole plate with a sampling of all differents because I just couldn’t choose