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<\/p>\nIt’s been a Christmas-sy weekend! Friday the kids were off school except for a brief scheduled assessment. So it was a lazy kind of day. In the evening Jack brought a friend to the ward Christmas party. It was nice to get out and chat with people and enjoy some Christmas music. They had a few small instrumental performances and had the kids sing “Stars Were Gleaming” – much to Jack’s embarrassment, since his friend got to watch him sing. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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Today we decided to take an adventure downtown for some Christmas cheer. For extra fun, we took the light rail train. It was a dreary gray day, but I mostly stayed warm.<\/p>\n
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Visited the Giving Machine at Writer Square. <\/p><\/div>\n
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Sam and Ben bought some fancy cheese from an Irish cheesemonger selling Dutch wares at the German market.<\/p><\/div>\n
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All testing the cheese in the Christkindlmarkt Festival Hall. <\/p><\/div>\n
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I was very tempted to buy all the wurst and potatoes in a variety of forms at the Christkindlmarkt, but it was SOOOO crowded and the lines long. Instead we went to Mellow Mushroom for a warm meal indoors. (Notice Sam is piling on the parm while our photo is taken)<\/p><\/div>\n
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I impressed\/embarrassed my family with my wealth knowledge for lyrics from radio hits of 1998 and 1998, which seemed to make up the restaurant’s playlist. Here I’m serenading the boys with a Britney Spears ballad. <\/p><\/div>\n
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There was a pop-up market in Larimer Square. Mostly fancy-pants boutique wares. Jack and I ducked into the festival tent and found an a cappella group singing a Disney medley. They were really good!<\/p><\/div>\n
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Home again on the train. Sam tried to play it cool, riding backwards away from us. But he came back after one stop to share a bench and play Farkle on Ben’s phone. <\/p><\/div>\n
Not pictured, they each picked out treat at Rocket Fizz. Sam took a sour apple Blow-Pop, Jack took a Chocolate Frog.<\/p>\n
I spent in the afternoon in a bustle getting groceries and picking up Christmas cards and a popcorn tin. Then I baked cupcakes for my Sunday school class and did laundry while watching Nutcracker. We had a lovely brief snow, but no build-up on the ground. To finish the evening we watched Home Alone 2. The kids were howling with laughter and declared it just as good as the original.<\/p>\n
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