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Looks like its going to be fairly quiet this year. The family will gather at Dad's house on Christmas eve for midnight mass followed by an early (1:30 AM) breakfast of seafood (French tradition) and present opening. Then we all crash and sleep till mid morning and then go visit friends and drop off presents. We usually do dinner about 4 PM. Will not be anything like last year's blow out in England but should be fun. Dad wants to do a "game" dinner with New Orleans style turtle soup, then a fowl course of wild ducks, phesants, and boneless quail. Then a main course of roast boar butt and a haunch of vennison. That is the plan, now we will see what he can actually organize. The wines should be good but I think they are keeping the best stuff for either New Years or Twelvth Night. That is when Grand Dad will open a magnum of his Fonseca 1945. Anyway, this year looks to be about 18 for dinner as opposed to the nearly fifty last year at Westin-on-the-Green in England. Since I have been laid up for several weeks while the medical types attacked some secondary infections caused by Iraqi scrap iron left over from my deployment I think everybody wanted to cool it until they were sure I would be up and running instead of wandering around in an anti-biotic induced haze. I kind of feel like I put a damper on the family celebration. Anyway, I am pretty much back to normal and my exams went better than I thought they would (thanks to the kindness of all my teachers, I suspect), so it looks like I will graduate as planned and not have to blow off this semester.
Hope all of you have a right Merry Christmas and a grand New Year and that all good things come to each and everyone of you! Joyeux Noel!
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