The Zereps

we got a bunch of snow dumped on us last night and earlier this morning. it was pretty while it lasted, but now it’s melting and turning the sidewalks to slick ice.

just to as an update, the mystery gifter was cindy! 🙂 thanks so much! i really love them and can’t wait to cook with them. 🙂 woohoo!

our poor tree is naked no more! my mom sent me our decorations from the last two years and on monday night, i decorated the tree. it’s really pretty and the picture doesn’t do it justice. i would like to make a popcorn string for it, too.

yesterday, after i walked jabba over to lorrie’s (in the cold!!!) i made a trek to the post office with a very loaded granny basket. i had 7 packages to mail (ebay, gifts, etc) and i had to bungie cord the boxes to the top. hehe….the guy at the post office brought out a huge bin just for me. i also sent out our christmas cards! yay!

here’s the basket loaded up for christmas!

and the tree with jabba sitting still, being a good little boy. 🙂

jabba started shaking when i walked into the bathroom with him. he knows he’s getting a bath when i take his collar off and fill the tub. poor little guy! it’s not his fault he’s a stinker! 🙂

Click here to see a very amazing Christmas light spectacular show like you’ve never seen before (requires windows media player):

Wizards of Winter

It’s real too! Click below for more info:

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yay for christmas!

gift giving can be a pain in the arse sometimes. but, eric and i have started using a wonderful new site called wishlist.com to publish our wish lists beyond the “dear santa” routine. we’re not telling people to buy us stuff (but it would be nice ;)) but for other people to sign up so we’re not so in the dark. plus, it’s super fun!

[if you would like to view our wishlists, just go to here and type in our names. :)]

this is the first chance i’ve had to post since before our trip, which, btw, was super fun. i loved boulder! mountainy, yet urban, relaxed, yet hip! 🙂

this here’s a rock. super, i know. i went for a walk/hike one day up into the flatirons (nearby rocky mountains).

while eric was doing his ‘training’ stuff, i was free to amble about town. mmmmm….nothing like a stop at ben and jerry’s for some dublin mudslide!

we got back from boulder at around midnight and eric’s dad got here for his visit the next morning around 6.30, so it was a busy thanksgiving day. we hit the parade, which eric showed you a pic of, and zipped up to the top of a building to look at the city, and then to our super yummy thanksgiving dinner at counter! it was SOOOO good! my favorite were the last 2 courses (out of 5).

Candice, my dad, and I (with Jabba tagging along) went to the far-east…side of Long Island to go to a Christmas Tree farm and cut down our own tree. It was very cold, but a fun ride. The trees are a little more expensive than in the fertile open spaces of California. $79 for any self-cut tree, regardless of size plus $20 for the base. The year we picked a silver-tip that measures about 7 feet tall. Pictures of the tree post-decoration to come soon…

Well… I would have thought by now that Candice would have posted some pictures of our recent adventures, but apparently she hasn’t, so here are a few that I picked out:

Me at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade:

Candice and me at the top of the Rockefeller Building, with the Empire State Building in the background: (Top of the Rock)

…Standing in front of our new Christmas Tree (deleted at Candice’s request):

Jabba is helping supervise the tree cutting:

Candice and I are safe and sound, back at home in New York City. We had absolutely no problems or delays getting from the Denver airport back to Laguardia (which is only about 2 miles from our house.) We flew on Frontier Airlines… I have to admit I usually don’t care much for air travel, but I really liked flying on Frontier. And so much for hectic holiday travel.. I think it’s way too hyped up by the media. There was hardly anybody on the roads in Colorado today. We flew out there on the Sunday before Thanksgiving; we left our house at 7:00am. By 7:15am, we were already through security and sitting in the terminal waiting for our 9 o’clock flight. And for our return flight, the plane we were on wasn’t even full… and there weren’t any delays and everybody seemed to be in a good mood. 🙂

We had an interesting experience for lunch today.. Right behind the hotel where we stayed these past couple days was a Domino’s Pizza joint.The checkout time at our hotel was 12 noon, so we packed up our stuff and wanted to grab something quick for lunch. We headed to the Domino’s, ordered a medium pizza with olives and 2-20oz sodas–and the guy there only charged us 5 bucks! Props to Domino’s in Boulder–that made my day.