Xmas 2005, December (Page #4)

Dad, Lora & I Having XMas In The States

And there's more!

Wednesday 21st

Off license to buy our booze for the duty free. They promise that they "ID Everyone" - hah! they didn't card Dad...

Book shop (Borders at Lennox) to buy a book or two...

Nope: This is not the one i want:

Thursday 22nd

Nothing much today, but our evening meal at a Deli that appears to be on its last elbows..

pic

Friday 23rd

First of all a trip round Mark's office :)

And a trip to the mall..

Look: This is virtually a Morris Traveller! I want one!

These are for use with "Tobacco only" (so the sign says)

Okay. A device that winds your clock-work watch for you. $$99.99

A video of an iDog! (181kb)

Okay. Now time to play with the trains. Mark has an LGB Steam train. Quite a bit of work to get it going (insert water, oil and fuel) but very satisfying..

Videos:

Trains (859kb) Trains (558kb) Trains (138kb) Trains (1,257kb) Trains (74kb) Trains (320kb) Trains (39kb) Trains (265kb) Trains (51kb)

Mark's Mince pies (homemade):

Saturday 24th, Xmas Eve

Boids watching again:

Mark making food again. This time: raspberry ripple ice cream!

Cats:

Sunday 25th, Xmas day.

Presents galore. Not many photos, but a good day :)

Xmas Dinner. this is quite difficult to do in the US (finding parsnips alone is a trek of nearly biblical proportions)

We have video as well as stills. You'll need an appropriate player, such as quicktime (or the appropriate Real Player plug in) to play these .mov/.3gp files. The .movs are converted from .3gp files using Quicktime pro. The filesize is disturbingly similar so if you have problems you either need the latest quicktime or you'll still need to grab the Nokia media player (here is a link). Under Linux I've not been able to get sound, but the video portion will play (in xine and mplayer).

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