Christmas Eve

making sugar cookies and decorating our apartment :) I know not the best picture

Sunday:

The locals like to sing and dance, they will have competitions on whose group can sing better or dance better. So their Christmas Eve consisted of eating, singing and dancing. We sat around the inside of the gym and watched what was going on. I have to admit that I didn’t stick around long, I knew that I had to at least show up, but Marla and I had planned other activities for that evening, and the last thing we wanted to do was sit and listen to songs sung in a language other then English.
Marla made sugar cookies while Jay and I hung Christmas ornaments from the ceiling. We were almost finished when Mitch came back, he had stuck around a little longer then the rest of us…He gave his creative opinion as to where the last few decorations should go, giving me a hard time as I balanced on a stool and tried to hang a red Christmas ball from the ceiling…
We were all in good spirits that night, laughing and playing card games and just having a good time. We played a game called “Kings, Queens, and Poppers” it was a hilarious game and I spent a lot of my time laughing…Basically you wanted to be King…if you can’t be King, then you want to be Queen…if you can’t be Queen then you want to be free man, if not that position, then the un named position (you aren’t a popper and you aren’t a free man I have no idea what you are…but that usually doesn’t matter), then there is the Popper…which you don’t want to be, you are the lowest of the low (I spent many a game in that position)…The Popper always had to clear the pile, if anyone else touched the pile then they became the Popper and you got to switch places with them. Mitch was king a lot of the time…I was his Queen I think about twice… (I was queen more times then that…but I can’t recall who was my King) anyway the King got to come up with decrees and those just made us all laugh…you kinda had to be there to understand how and why this game is absolutely hilarious to play and watch.
We were up quite late…after the card game we decorated cookies and then watched a movie… “The Polar Express” which I have seen many times and actually almost put me to sleep, but it was still fun we all crowded onto the bed/couch in our living room and enjoyed the movie…at least I think that we did.