HAPPY BELATED HOLIDAYS!

I suppose it's time for another entry! Brian and I had a crazy but really great two weeks off from work. We looked at a calendar and realized that starting the night of Dec. 14th, we had either a family committment or get together with friends, every day/night except for two! It was fun, but only having two real days of doing absolutely nothing was a huge tease. We can't complain though, we got to see a lot of people in a short time, which was great b/c our schedules don't always match up with those outside the prep school world during the school year so it was great to catch up. We had an amazing Christmas, our families were unbelievable to us. There were great gifts all around! Brian got me a mountain bike which I am really pumped about. He totally surprised me, it was great! The only bummer is now I have to wait a couple months for warm weather to use it! It's going to come in handy when I don't feel like walking to work and I really need to stop driving the block and a half here everyday, pathetic. I'm really not that lazy, just never on time!! Anyhow, some other vacation highlights include, going to NYC with 15 of my cousins, seeing out of state family, celebrating dads bday, and gramma b's bday, hosting my grandparents for dinner and getting hooked on the gameshow DUEL, hanging with my sister and her beau, game night with old friends, new years eve with the fam, and new years day in NY with brian's friends for a fun filled day of football! We were sooo tired, it was almost a relief to go back to work =) NYC with my cousins was such a great time...i'll post some pics soon. We took the train down early one morning which was entertaining in itself, then went to times square, ripley's believe it or not (pretty neat), lunch at Mangia e Bevi, (a lot more quiet on a sunday afternoon but we did get to dance on chairs and play tambourines, and the sangria was the best i've ever had!), saw the tree, toys r us, hershey store, macys, herald square, etc. it was great but we were all pretty beat by the end of the day, not to mention it started pouring at the end of the day. perfect timing though. i'm sure there is so much i'm missing about our break but i think you get the idea: lots of fam, lots of friends, not much down time! I'm pretty sure i'm repeating myself so i'll stop here...hope everyone had a great holiday, happy new year!