Adventures In Overhausering

Random updates in no particular order:

Thanksgiving Eve: I decided to get all fancy and actually make some of the food ahead of time.  Unfortunately for my electric mixer, I forgot that the oven vents heat through the back burner.

Thanksgiving:  We had a very enjoyable day with Brian's Italian coworker and his Colombian-American fiancee.  Since I didn't take pictures, here are some illustrations I found to depict our day:

 Here is a likeness to Federico:

  And here is a likeness to his fiancee, Cristi:

What we talked about: (Thanksgiving got a little morbid and depressing)

And then the conversation got a lot funnier:

Boopitiy, Boppitity!

(except for it didn't make us sad.  It made us laugh.)

And then we settled in for this marathon on AMC:

Which, to be honest, was quite a bit like watching it in surround sound as both Federico and Cristi explained the differences in normal Italian versus the Sicilian dialect.  I demonstrated my Sicilian-language skills by reading aloud the English subtitles.  I feel I did a good job.

Black Friday:  Brian insisted on going with me shopping.  He felt that he should have a say in the Christmas gifts.  I concurred, and he and Nolan went out to the mall with me on Thursday night.  Brian lasted about three hours (although he tried to blame his tiredness on Nolan).  I ended up staying out until three in the morning.  

The Rest of the Weekend:  We enjoyed an expensive evening at the Gaylord (tee-hee!) Hotel.  It offers a huge Christmas display (not holiday. We're in Texas.  We say Christmas.) made out of two trillion pounds of ice.  Or maybe two million.  I don't recall.  For only $30 a person and $10 for parking, you can walk through 9-degree weather and look at frozen water in the displays of the nutcracker.

They had this super cool (literally.  Hey-o!) slide made of ice.  Nolan went on it twice.

It  was a really cool (literally.  Hey-oh!) display.  But I'm not quite sure how the Statue of Liberty wearing a Santa jacket fits in with the Nutcracker theme.

Also, the place was crazy-crowded, which made for some awkward photo ops (and I was seriously getting annoyed with the large group of people in front of us who had to stop in front of every display, pose for a picture, and then move three feet to get the next made-of-ice toy as the backdrop).

But we still managed to get a couple of decent shots.

The last display was of the Nativity, complete with lights and narration.

The house:  Things are still coasting along with our new home. We are still scheduled for a Friday, December 20 closing.  Huzzah!  I was in there last night and I noticed that they had put up the tile back splash in the kitchen.  I'm very glad I decided not to install it myself.

 

That is all for now, friends.  Thanks for reading!