Christmas day felt a lot more like Christmas because it was spent with close friends who are my Korean family. The morning was spent at Tracy's where a bunch of us enjoyed a home made breakfast. Omlette's courtesy of Rebekah, bacon courtesy of moi and Tracy toasted bread...lol! We ate, drank, chatted and did a gift exchange. Nicole and I felt bad because we bought non-serious or fun gag gifts and everyone else bought reasonable/sensible gifts that could actually be of use. Tracy numbered each gift and then we each drew a number and whatever number we drew was the present we recieved. My gift ended up being a ridiculous white siberian tiger animal hat. Animal hats are very popular in Korea and people young and old wear them. When we had finished with breakfast and the gift exchange we all were headed to different places to enjoy a nice Christmas dinner. Nicole, Nick, Damien and I were headed to Seoul for a potluck style dinner at Paul's house.
We got to Paul's late afternoon and he was busy cooking us our Christmas turkey. He had some munchies for us while we waited for the food to cook along with some home made spiked egg nog and spiked punch. We watched a Christmas movie, drank, munched and chatted while the turkey was being cooked.
The adorable little Christmas tree that Paul and Kristy have at their house. Definitely makes a difference at Christmas.
Here are some of the desserts that were brought. I made the oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.
My perky little self at Paul's Christmas dinner. I sported the Christmas earrings and green scarf to feel somewhat in the Christmas spirit.
We ended up staying a bit later than we wanted to because we still had to train back to Incheon. The night ended up being a lot of fun and in good company the only shitty part was heading back to school to teach the very next day. Teaching Christmas Eve and then the day after Christmas made it go by rather fast and unnoticed in a way. It hardly seemed like we had a holiday with just the one day off. Just another thing that makes Korea and North America different when it comes to certain holidays.
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