Mary(land) Christmas! (And Other Marey Puns)

For Christmas, we visited Chris's parents in Maryland, which was very nice and not really much colder than the Bay Area. Here's a picture of me on the trails in the backyard, notably wearing flip flops because a.) it really wasn't that cold, honest! and b.) well, I guess I *always* wear flip flops.

I am once again blanking out a little on what all happened over Christmas break, especially since family members don't tend to e-mail me about what we just did together so I can have a record of it in my inbox. Silly family members. But here's some highlights that I do remember!

• We played lots of Wii.
• We ate lots of Jessica's delicious Christmas cookies.
  
• We played a game called Winerd, which is a wine-tasting / wine trivia board game. The three wines we chose were made from totally different grapes, in totally different years, and on totally different continents, because we thought we'd make it easy on ourselves. Surprisingly, we got better and better as the game progressed. (Not enough "tasting" squares on the board, if you ask me.)
• We watched Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit and sampled some Wensleydale cheese, which is really tasty!
• We watched SO many DVDs, including new favorite shows, Arrested Development and House.

Lastly, Andrew got me an awesome gift (yes, despite no longer being 12 years old, I still love model horses):

I think the set is called "Arabian Mare and Foal" or something like that. So someone asked, what are you going to name them? They're Arabian, so they should have beautiful Arabian names. I was like, um, can you think of any notable Arab women? I'm thinking to myself, "Uh Golda Meir? D'oh! She's not Arab at all... AND that's a ridiculously terrible pun on Golden Mare". So someone else says "Princess Jasmine! That's all I can think of." So that's her name now, because in our ignorance, we can't think of any other Arabian female names. <sigh>

But the worst is still to come. So what should the foal's name be? Chris chortled and said "IED". So there we have it. Our well-intentioned attempt to give a couple Arabian horses Arabian names, and came up with "Princess Jasmine" and "IED". How terrible are we?