I Love the Christmas Season!

On Saturday, Dan and I got our Christmas tree. I love decorating for Christmas! Here are a few pictures...

Isn't that a good looking tree!

Gunny was no help at all! She just watched from the comfort of my coat.

All that decorating made us really tired! Look at how close Gunny and Bella are. They are going to be cuddling before we know it!

Cirque du Soleil

Friday afternoon Dan and I went to Kooza by Cirque du Soleil at National Harbor. I bought the tickets on a whim the night before and I am glad that we were able to go. It was very cool. If you don't have any exciting plans one evening, I highly recommend you go see it. We got the cheap seats and they were great. I am glad I didn't pay to sit anywhere else. The place is pretty small so you are close in any seat. No need to dress nice.. the show is in a circus tent and we had popcorn and soda during. It was a really fun time. Here is the website if you want to check it out.

Kooza

And for my Baltimore friends... No worries, it is coming to Baltimore in March!

New Baltimorian

It's official. I am reclaiming my Maryland roots this weekend. I have found a renter for my condo and am making the much anticipated move to Parkville, MD to live with Dan!

Sick Day

I have been at my job for almost 2 years and I have never used a sick day (not including the day Gunny came home from the hospital and I had to call in sick). But, today I had to use a sick day. I was supposed to work the night shift and I have a yucky cold so I called in. Sick days are not as nice when you live by yourself and there is no one to take care of you, but I did try and take full advantage. I sat on the couch for the whole day, half of which was in my PJs, I didn't do anything productive (eventhough I have a lot to do!), I drank a lot of orange juice and hot tea, I made a big pile of dirty tissues, and I ordered 2 Pay Per View movies (I am watching one of them for the second time right now.. got to get your moneys worth). Anyway... I am sad I had to break my perfect record, but sometimes you just gotta call in sick!

What's going on with Kim and Santa?

With Christmas approaching, I think it is important to have a friend who knows Santa. Kim.. If I tell you what I would like for Christmas could you tell Santa for me. :)

Halloween

This Halloween started off in the pumpkin patch....

And I found this cute little pumpkin there!

Then Dan and I sat on his front porch and handed out candy to all the cute little trick-or-treaters. We actually ran out of candy and had to close up shop at about 7:50! Luckily though, we were able to see some cute little kids and others that were giving out political advice.

Kid: "Who are YOU going to vote for?"
Us: "Who are YOU going to vote for?"
Kid: "John McCain of course!"
Us: "How come?"
Kid: "Because if Barack Obama gets into office, he is going to stop the war, and we are going to get bombed and then we are all going to DIE!"

So, lesson learned. Vote for John McCain or we are going to die. Little kids are so resourceful!

After that heavy information, we decided to join Kathleen and some of her friends out in Canton to celebrate Halloween in a lighter manner! No political talk at that party!

Here we all are... Kim was a pirate, Dan was Bob Ross (the painter who paints happy trees, you know who I am talking about and no that is not his real hair), I was a flapper girl, and Kathleen was a golfer (?).

As always, I have lots of pictures with Kim and stangers. I picked my favorite to post. Here is pirate Kim and Micheal Phelps eating his gold metals. He really did look like Micheal Phelps!

Overall, it was a fun Halloween night!

Camping

The other weekend, Dan and I went camping at the Granite Hill Campground in Gettysburg, PA. It was nice to be out in the wilderness. The weather was great, a tad bit chilly at night, but we survived.

Here is Dan putting up our cozy tent. We also had an air mattress and laptop to watch movies. I like comfortable camping. No sleeping on the ground and using the woods as a toilet!

On Saturday, we went to the Apple festival. Here is an attractive picture of me eating some fried apples. We also saw the steam engine display, perused the nick-nack shops, drank some fresh hot apple cider, checked out the old cars, and learned how to dance like American Indians. Overall it was a very cultural day.

On Sunday, we went did the driving tour of the Gettysburg Battlegrounds. It was a lovely day for a drive and very educational.

And this is what we did at night. The first night we cooked chili on the stove and the next night we got take out pizza from the local gas station and roasted marshmallows on the fire.

And here is what we did when we ran out of things to talk about... played with the camera and fire.