[Fr_Chuck]

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, It is Christmas Eve here and Christmas in about 3 hours. We have the tree and all decorations up. Have all the items for the traditional Ham dinner in the fridge, Ham, corn, peas, mashed potatoes

Christmas gifts under the tree to open in the morning.

We missed out on the Christmas party tonight, it was being held by the local government for foreigners living in the city. But will be making the Christmas party on campus tomorrow night.

We got Christmas Eve and Christmas off work.

[Fr_Chuck]

Photos one and two, my Christmas greetings

Photo three, I was trying to tell Mrs Claus what I wanted for Christmas but Toni caught me and put a end to that. (ok this is really a greeter at Walmart, they had them dressed like this for Christmas)

And of course what else says Christmas than a Angry Bird in a Santa hat, but the little kids were loving it.

And in the last, even the Zombies have some Christmas spirit here. But the Angry Birds game was hosting a Christmas event, and advertising their newest game, Angry Birds VS Zombies

[fredg]

Your pictures are very beautiful. Merry Christmas to you, too, and I do wish you a safe and happy New Year. Today is the eve of Jesus' birthday, so I wish Happy Birthday to Jesus. May God Bless you and your family on this very special day of the year.

[mogrann]

Merry Christmas thank you for sharing your pictures.

[odinn7]

Merry Christmas to you too, Fr_Chuck.

Great pictures.

[J_9]

Merry Christmas to you and yours Chuck.

[excon]

Hello Padre:

Merry Xmas..

excon

[Cat1864]

Merry Christmas, Chuck, to you, Lady Toni and the rest of your family.

I love the pictures and may I say that you are looking great. :)

[joypulv]

Funny funny FUNNY!
Love the angry bird!
And you look pretty much like I thought you might!
Interesting stories too.

[Fr_Chuck]

Yes, well it is Christmas morning here, all the gifts are open and all the gift bags are stacked away for next time we give gifts. Nate got a new computer, his was about 6 years old and time for a new one, of course I knew the operating system would all be Chinese, so we took it and had it converted to English before Christmas. He got mostly computer related things, new mouse, mouse pad, bag for computer.

Toni got some new night clothes, and a some other smaller items,

As cold as it is here and of course my school has no heaters in the class room, Santa got me some new "long johns" to help make teaching nicer this winter. I also got some kitchen items, most of you know I love to cook.

[Fr_Chuck]

Yes Santa got one of the labels mixed up and I got a sexy night wear, I let Toni have it since it did not match my eyes.

[cdad]

Merry Christmas. Careful around that angry bird he looks hungry ;)

Do they have new years there or do they wait for the traditional calendar ?

[Fr_Chuck]

They do both New Years here, already selling the fireworks for Jan 1. In fact we get Jan1, 2, 3 off from work, it is a National Holiday here.

Then the Lunar or "Chinese" New Year will be a much larger holiday.