Home for Christmas

After months of intense work 24/7 and absolutely no play or fun (ok, heavy sarcasm) I got a break to go home for the holidays. I spent several wonderful days in Virginia seeing friends and eating out (lots and lots of Mexican!!) and shopping (everything is half as expensive as in London!). It was strange to be home and to be driving...being there tuned me into a lazy bum =) Then on to Pittsburgh to spend Christmas proper with family. An intense couple of days filled mostly with baking and coking and eating and relaxing. Not a bit of schoolwork in sight!

Lovely family portrait! Me, Brad, Monica, and Kathy. Christmas tree in the background, but we're wholly blocking it

mmmmm.... what is Christmas without baking loads and loads of cookies? And eating them of course.