green & rainy = portland christmas

While it may not look like christmas outside, inside our house it does. We bought our first tree and first ornaments and decorated our tree Friday night. And of course, at the end of decorating the tree, I did my famous conducting of the Trans Siberian Orchestra's Christmas in Sarajevo. Tim's presents and stocking are wrapped and under the tree. We have snowmen decorating a small christmas tree in one corner, and a snowman skating on top of our television. Tim still has to wrap my presents, but it's so nice to have it look and feel like christmas.

Last night, we intended to go to The Grotto, some religious pilgrimage site that has a festival of lights. But it was in a REALLY trashy part of town (along the way we saw strip clubs called Pink Kitty's, X-otic tanning for men, and more total dumps proclaiming hot nude girls), and it was really crowded and looked a little cheesy. So, we decided that instead of paying $14 to look at lights, we would go to the best donut shop in the world, get some donuts and drive around nice neighborhoods looking at lights. Our way was much more fun.

And now we just have to be good and wait till tomorrow to open presents. To quote Inigo, "I hate waiting."