I also forgot that on Friday 23rd evening, I went up to San Francisco to have a meal with Daga before she left for Poland and the UK. We went to a rather nice little Indian place, and it was delicious. And it was also very sad saying goodbye to Daga. :(
So, woke up fairly late on the 24th with the intention of heading down to Santa Cruz around 1ish to help Mads with the evening's meal. What actually happened was that Anh called me and asked if I wanted to come over for food, which turned out to be a huge Christmas feast with his family. Which was awesome. There was some really delicious meat there too, which I'm glad I didn't ask what it was until after I had eaten it. A pig's liver, heart, arteries, stomach and lungs can actually be quite tasty.
Chilled out there for the afternoon, beating Anh and his brother quite spectacularly at Halo 2, before driving down to Santa Cruz via a shopping place to buy 2 litres of Bacardi Gold Rum, a bottle of Port and some red wine. Picked up Patricia on the way too, and had a nice pleasant journey down the 17, with much fewer near-death experiences than usual.
Meal was *fantastic* (Much Kudos to Mads), and after a little euro-politics over a glass or two of Port, the serious partying started. Everyone drank loads, and there was much dancing and singing to Christmas songs.
Of which I have some recorded.
The people who ended up staying for the night were Anh, Patricia, Mads and I, though Collette (a girl from Germany who I'd met at a party a few months before) and Viola, her friend, also stayed for most of the night. Between us we managed to drink pretty much all the Bacardi and a fair bit more. We played a whole bunch of drinking games (Anh got me a set of drinking games for Christmas :D), and finally got to the whole "I have never". Great stuff.
Collette was supposed to be driving Viola home, but she was completely sloshed and by 4am I was sober (sadly. We were watching Home Alone though, which I hadn't seen in a while, still as amusing as ever) so I drove her home instead.
After not much sleep we got up, cleaned the house up, had breakfast, and had a wrapping paper fest. I hadn't expected people to buy be presents, but Mads had got me a whole bunch of stuff for the car I had just bought of him, and Patricia gave me a really cool San Francisco t-shirt. So yay :D
After chilling out, and having a left-overs breakfast (the gammon was especially delicious, especially when fried with free range eggs fresh from Mads back garden), we decided to go see Fun With Dick and Jane. Absolutely *hilarious* film, great stuff.
We all went home after that, though Anh and I hung out for a bit more before going to get Christmas dinner at Denny's. That's right, I had Christmas dinner at an American Diner. After watching a movie in the afternoon, I felt like a true American :D
Boxing Day was *not* a day of rest... instead it was a day of being even more American and spending an hour battling for car parking spaces in a huge mall, meeting Patricia, Saldy, Kristy and Phoebe for some Boxing Say Sales Shopping. Boy, was that fun. Got myself some new shoes though. Wheeeeee!
Headed home 'round about 8 (after going to a second mall) and played Guildwars for hours.
27th was a mooch day. Went and bought some stuff for my car, then played Guildwars for about 10 hours straight. Got myself to lvl 20 finally, and wandered around exploring huge parts of the map. Felt very acomplished :D.
I also watched Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. A most excellently hilarious movie, I recommend it to anyone. Hilarious. Also watched American Pie: Bandcamp, which was good for a good few laughs.
Today I mostly hung out with Patricia. Went and spent $56 on excellen chinese food for the two of us, wandered around downtown San Jose, went through the truly wonderful "Christmas in the Park" (loads and loads and loads of 1.5m high Christmas trees hat have been decorated by the local schools), got covered in fake snow, then went shopping and bought a nice jacket.
And now I must sleep, for I have a flight to Ohio and a week long aiesec conference tomorrow. This should be *fun* :D
So, woke up fairly late on the 24th with the intention of heading down to Santa Cruz around 1ish to help Mads with the evening's meal. What actually happened was that Anh called me and asked if I wanted to come over for food, which turned out to be a huge Christmas feast with his family. Which was awesome. There was some really delicious meat there too, which I'm glad I didn't ask what it was until after I had eaten it. A pig's liver, heart, arteries, stomach and lungs can actually be quite tasty.
Chilled out there for the afternoon, beating Anh and his brother quite spectacularly at Halo 2, before driving down to Santa Cruz via a shopping place to buy 2 litres of Bacardi Gold Rum, a bottle of Port and some red wine. Picked up Patricia on the way too, and had a nice pleasant journey down the 17, with much fewer near-death experiences than usual.
Meal was *fantastic* (Much Kudos to Mads), and after a little euro-politics over a glass or two of Port, the serious partying started. Everyone drank loads, and there was much dancing and singing to Christmas songs.
The people who ended up staying for the night were Anh, Patricia, Mads and I, though Collette (a girl from Germany who I'd met at a party a few months before) and Viola, her friend, also stayed for most of the night. Between us we managed to drink pretty much all the Bacardi and a fair bit more. We played a whole bunch of drinking games (Anh got me a set of drinking games for Christmas :D), and finally got to the whole "I have never". Great stuff.
Collette was supposed to be driving Viola home, but she was completely sloshed and by 4am I was sober (sadly. We were watching Home Alone though, which I hadn't seen in a while, still as amusing as ever) so I drove her home instead.
After not much sleep we got up, cleaned the house up, had breakfast, and had a wrapping paper fest. I hadn't expected people to buy be presents, but Mads had got me a whole bunch of stuff for the car I had just bought of him, and Patricia gave me a really cool San Francisco t-shirt. So yay :D
After chilling out, and having a left-overs breakfast (the gammon was especially delicious, especially when fried with free range eggs fresh from Mads back garden), we decided to go see Fun With Dick and Jane. Absolutely *hilarious* film, great stuff.
We all went home after that, though Anh and I hung out for a bit more before going to get Christmas dinner at Denny's. That's right, I had Christmas dinner at an American Diner. After watching a movie in the afternoon, I felt like a true American :D
Boxing Day was *not* a day of rest... instead it was a day of being even more American and spending an hour battling for car parking spaces in a huge mall, meeting Patricia, Saldy, Kristy and Phoebe for some Boxing Say Sales Shopping. Boy, was that fun. Got myself some new shoes though. Wheeeeee!
Headed home 'round about 8 (after going to a second mall) and played Guildwars for hours.
27th was a mooch day. Went and bought some stuff for my car, then played Guildwars for about 10 hours straight. Got myself to lvl 20 finally, and wandered around exploring huge parts of the map. Felt very acomplished :D.
I also watched Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. A most excellently hilarious movie, I recommend it to anyone. Hilarious. Also watched American Pie: Bandcamp, which was good for a good few laughs.
Today I mostly hung out with Patricia. Went and spent $56 on excellen chinese food for the two of us, wandered around downtown San Jose, went through the truly wonderful "Christmas in the Park" (loads and loads and loads of 1.5m high Christmas trees hat have been decorated by the local schools), got covered in fake snow, then went shopping and bought a nice jacket.
And now I must sleep, for I have a flight to Ohio and a week long aiesec conference tomorrow. This should be *fun* :D
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