Mele Kalikimaka! (It's the thing to say on a bright, Hawaiian Christmas day).
Christmas in England was all I thought it was going to be. There was lots of food, lots of drinks, and lots of hugs and kisses. It was a lot of fun! I also had my first experience with a Christmas cracker. It's a tacky, but fun, present that two people pull on the ends of and it, well, "cracks"! It's filled with little toys and prizes. Think of a pinata, but with a British accent. After the Christmas cracking and turkey eating, everyone played "Britain's Got Talent" the board game. It's safe to say that I have no talent, and I'm not British (all because I didn't know the theme song to the popular British TV show "Dr. Who"). While I wasn't at home in Kansas, in the freezing temperatures and feet of snow, being in England for "Father Christmas", as they call Santa, and Cadbury chocolate eating wasn't so bad. Playing catch with an electric-shocking bouncing ball and having people explain Christmas puddings and mincemeat pies, made Christmas a fun day. I hope everyone else was able to enjoy it as much as I did!
As for today, two days after Boxing day, we closed early on a Sunday roast day, and six of us employees were able to enjoy a Co-worker Christmas party, minus the bosses. Nikkola, James, Ben, Andy and his girlfriend Ashley, and I went to the city of Watford and enjoyed a nice game of bowling. Not just bowling...COSMIC bowling! And not just cosmic bowling...DRUNK cosmic bowling! We each bought a round of drinks as we bowled our hearts out. So, after stumbling through 10 frames, we played once more, and drank more, and enjoyed the night off. After the bowling/drinking (I went all six rounds...of drinking. But barely scored 100 in the bowling portion of the evening), we hopped across the street to a nice, little chain restaurant. When I heard "Great American food" I immediately thought, "Thank god! A Burger!" Because, let's be honest, that's all I've been craving. So, with pizza's ordered, and onion rings, and pasta's, I put in my order for a bacon cheeseburger, no mayo. It's got to be good, right? Wrong. Not only did they put mayo on my burger, which was later nixed from our bill, because of the screw up, but it also didn't have the same juiciness and the same beautiful taste that is a great American burger. It tasted more like sausage than anything. So, managing to eat nearly a 1/4 of the burger, I sat it down, and sulked in the disappointing moment. I guess it'll be another 5 1/2 months before I taste another succulent burger from home. Be sure to line them up for me.
Outside of the burger, my co-worker Christmas party was very much needed. Working and living in the same building doesn't allow much time to get out, but tonight I did, and it was more fun than the past few days combined! Hopefully I'll get more days like this.
Oh, and one more Christmas present the staff received: 3 days in Mallorca, Spain January 12-15. That will be a great vacation!
Everyone eat a burger for me!
xo's,
jill
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