Friday, December 25, 2009

Christmas Morning at Casa de Smith

Below are pictures of our Christmas morning together. December 25th here in Mazatlan started at midnight with the ringing of church bells in the distance, the popping of fireworks and then at 3:00 am the infamous Banda music playing in the distance too. It's such a contrast of sounds but they are the sounds of Christmas in Mexico.


We got up about 7:00 am to 65 degrees, slight overcast skies, and a slight breeze. The street was very quite this morning, not much traffic and the malecon had just a few walkers/joggers/bicycles, etc. Very pleasant Christmas morning here in Maz.



Greg started Christmas Day with a cup of coffee with Baileys Irish Cream.
I started my Christmas Day with International Delight French Vanilla in my coffee.

Then, we began to open our gifts to one another.
Greg was happy to get an LL Bean Fly Fishing book for Christmas.

He was sooooo excited to get a new swim suit from Santa.
Santa was a little worried if he would like the swim suit. It fit him perfectly and he loved it.

Very happy with the pockets on each side.

How does my butt look??
Here's what Greg received for Christmas:
BBQ Tool set
Screw Driver set,
LL Bean Fly Fishing Book
Hand and band exercise tools
Banana-grams (word challenge book)
Sudoku To Go book
"Your Heart Belongs to Me" by Dean Koontz
Jar of his favorite mixed nuts
Swim Suit
Oven Mitt
Here's what I received:
4th in the series of Twilight books, "Breaking Dawn"
"Twilight" the movie
New Nicholas Sparks book, "The Last Song
3 pound hand weights
2 candles - Vanilla Bean and Pumpkin Spice
Santa Apron
Electrical plug for the Ipod
and Greg got us both new Santa hats.
And, last but not least, we're so happy to have each other this Christmas.
We do miss our families but will be with them next Christmas for sure.
We hope all your Christmas wishes came true and you had a wonderful Christmas together. Remember, "The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other." Merry Christmas to all!!

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