The Weekend Before Christmas

Friday night, I came back from an overnight trip to Surabaya. We went to 2 Papayas (Found jet-puffed masrhmallows, Pop Tarts and Hershey's chocolate chips!), 3 ACE Hardware stores and 3 malls. The Samoffs stayed at the house all week. They had lit up the Christmas garland over the arch and Donny brought over his Menado Christmas tree made from a pole and fishing wire!

With the Charis Christmas party finished, Brenda had cleared out all of her bags and supplies for the giant gingerbread house. The house was finally back to normal so that Kaylor and I could get to the chest of Christmas decor. So, on Saturday, we sent up the bamboo figurines! Sunday night, I went to Donny and Kaylor's Christmas Sunday program. Gideon, Lydia and Goteng were all there! They all work at Charis with me. It was fun to see them all in action. They had a sleeping Santa Claus made out of Styrofoam. Oh! And I found one house with Christmas lights! And we ate fried rice from kaki lima (5 legs) aka the little carts that men walk up and down streets selling things. And we watched the first half of Santa Clause 3. Even though we rented it from the store, it was definitely a pirated version. The picture was tilted about 30 degree!