A Look Back: Christmas Vacation Part (when Dad was there)

We were next joined by my dad, flying in from Who-Knows-Where Oklahoma (even though there is really only one city in Oklahoma that anyone knows anything about).

And, the next day... we went monument-hopping again? (Valerie went to go visit some friends and see the Supreme Court, where she's going to be working, eventually.) So Dad and I went geo-caching. But without a GPS. So we walked and wandered and made it around the Tidal Basin.

(I know, this picture has already circulated on the internet. But I really like it, ok?)

That evening, we decorated the freshly-made (by a day or two) sugar cookies. I was asked to do an interpretive one of a friend. Can you guess what his characteristics are?

We ended the week with the rest of the family flying in for Christmas Eve. We had a first round of Christmas presents. In our family, the youngest chooses the first gift to give someone that's underneath the tree. After that person has finished opening it, and everyone has done the appropriate ooh-ing and ahh-ing, they select the next gift to open.

We finished up the evening with a photo shoot for our post-Christmas card. We purposefully didn't get them out on time this year, since the last time the six of us had been together was last Christmas (though all of us had seen everyone else, just not in a single place and time). The result was less than stunning...

...good thing that we changed it after going to the Outer Banks!