Friday, December 26, 2008

Christmas – Circling the Globe

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For Christmas, we continue with several traditions brought with us from the US, including stringing of popcorn on the tree.  We added a few traditions over the years such as a Swiss (cheese) fondue.  We had a break from tradition on Christmas Day when we had an authentic multi-course Asian meal complements of our guests, Maria and Mei-Mei.  It included some flavours new to our taste buds such as green grass jelly, a sweetened red bean drink, and sugar cane juice.

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Christmas Eve + Swiss Cheese Fondue


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We had a traditional Swiss cheese fondue on Christmas Eve with our visitors Mei Mei Lee (CEF of Macau) and her friend Maria (from San Francisco).  We were also blessed to have Heather with us for Christmas break from college, which came as a surprise gift to us shortly before Christmas.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Back Home

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A short note to say we all arrived (eventually...) back home to a snow covered Holderbank, Switzerland.  We had a rough start with a flight cancelation in Harrisburg, PA causing us to miss our connecting flight to Switzerland.  They rescheduled us with a few extra stops along the way.  There's nothing like sitting 6 hrs. in Harrisburg airport when our scheduled connecting flight is only a 2 hr. drive away in Washington-Dulles.

Sorry about the late blog entry of our arrival back.  We've been home one week and jumped right into our work and school routine while struggling with jet-lag where we were nodding off all day and when our heads hit the pillow we were awake until 4:30am.

This is the last of our Furlough '08 blog entries.