Merry Christmas to everyone from beautiful Iceland. First of all we have no snow and the temperatures have been just 2 to 6 degrees below freezing so it has been very nice.
We started our Christmas with Eileen opening her present from me via the internet. I asked Amanda to buy the present and take pictures and send via email. Then we opened packages from Lisa´s family. Next we invited the Elders to share our traditional Christmas breakfast of Eggs Benedict. Kristi sent us Hollandaise sauce packets last year and again this year for us to enjoy our tradition. We added Dutch Babies this year as it was closer to brunch than breakfast. Next Eileen made a couple of apple pies and I made sweet potato casserole to take to dinner with a great family here in the Selfoss Branch. Bettina is German and Ronald is half German/half Icelandic. They prepared a wonderful Christmas dinner so much like our Christmas or Thanksgiving dinners with turkey and all the trimmings. They have two boys and 3 girls and it was fun to share Christmas with them. Icelanders love candles - over 40 were lit in this house. After dinner Bettina asked Elder Walsh to play some Christmas songs on the clarinet. He wasn't too excited to do it as he has not played in over a year but he did fine. We also talked about our own Christmas traditions. It was a fun evening and a great way to spend Christmas.
2 comments:
Sounds like you had a wonderful Christmas!!!
Maybe next year you might want to try a warm Winter!! Arizona is always nice during Christmas. "HINT HINT"
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