The Holidays

It was hard to be away from friends and family this last holiday weekend, but through the wonders of international mail and Skype we were able to connect to folks back home.

As any good holiday should be celebrated, we were able to eat good food and spend time with great people. Here are a smattering of photos from the last few days.

We visited a new local Korean bar. You'll notice the festive bar snacks: dried fish, sweetened dried green beans, and sweet corn chips.

Bowling. Not really that different.

We celebrated Hanukkah with latkes and matzo ball soup.

We made caramel popcorn.

Christmas eve we went to a friends house for a potluck.

And of course after the potluck we headed around the corner for some traditional Christmas eve karaoke.

This is John and I knocking Feliz Navidad out of the park.

These types of claw machines are everywhere. Up until Christmas the stuffed animals had eluded us, but, thanks to a Christmas miracle, we won a tiny stuffed frog!