The day before Christmas Eve, Joshua and I celebrated with Susan and Caleb. We had a wonderful time giving & opening gifts and eating at a great Asian restaurant. (Crispy beef with special sauce, it turns out, is exactly what it's name implies.)
Following our city excursion we met up with Joshua's extended family in State College. Although we both came down with fevers and the flu we had a great time playing ping-pong, catching up with family, and walking around the Penn State Arboretum.
We spent about one day at home, and then despite Joshua's persistent 100.4 temp, we left for Hershey, PA. Joshua's friend Nate was house sitting for a family friend (who didn't mind that, Dan, Steph, Jon, Tim and we were visiting) in a beautiful and disgustingly huge (try 6 bedrooms) frank lloyd-wright styled home. We had a great couple of days hanging out in their hot tub; exploring their barn, climbing wall, olympic sized trampoline (if there is such a thing); making large and delicious feasts; snowball fighting; being musical; playing pool/ping pong/settlers/scrabble; and laughing nonstop. All in all it was a perfect way to celebrate the end of one year and the start of a new one.
While we had a great vacation, it is really nice to be home relaxing while we plot our next adventure...
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