We've been going out quite a bit lately. Most weekends we seem to see something new in Manhattan. Unfortunately, there's a trend for Kyan to go crazy every time we get on a train. It's getting frustrating to say the least, especially given the fact that he loves trains so much, and even asks persistently to go on the trains each weekend.
This might give you an idea of what we put up with.
He was so much sweeter before he learned how to talk!
17 December 2006
16 December 2006
Don't say the C-word
As Christmas approaches, so do the holidays and the inevitable excitement of spending Christmas with friends and family.
Luckily for us, Marcel and Belinda have been able to get some time to come up from DC during the Christmas period. It will be good for all of us to share the Christmas spirit, even if that doesn't include having beer and prawns next to the pool. In the US, the beer's no good, the prawns are called shrimp, and the pools are probably frozen over by now. Either way, it will be great fun. It looks like there's not a snowflake's chance in hell (literally) that we'll have a white Christmas this year. The weather's been quite warm, relatively speaking, having only been below freezing about 6 days so far. Rain yes, snow no. Maybe next year, or the year after...
On the sad side, nobody wishes anybody a Merry Christmas here. It's a more generic Happy Holidays. If you thought political correctness was crazy in Australia, it's totally out of control here. You don't wish people Merry Christmas for fear that it will offend their Jewish or Muslim sensitivities. As a result, nobody gets a true Christmas. Even the advertisements on TV advertise holiday specials. It's almost like Christmas is an offensive word, not to be used under any circumstances.
If I didn't know better, I'd swear that Christmas isn't even just around the corner. Maybe it's not; perhaps they celebrate Christmas in the middle of summer too, just like back home. That actually makes sense; around June I'll start spreading my Christmas cheer!
Regardless, we'll be having a great Christmas at home, so MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Luckily for us, Marcel and Belinda have been able to get some time to come up from DC during the Christmas period. It will be good for all of us to share the Christmas spirit, even if that doesn't include having beer and prawns next to the pool. In the US, the beer's no good, the prawns are called shrimp, and the pools are probably frozen over by now. Either way, it will be great fun. It looks like there's not a snowflake's chance in hell (literally) that we'll have a white Christmas this year. The weather's been quite warm, relatively speaking, having only been below freezing about 6 days so far. Rain yes, snow no. Maybe next year, or the year after...
On the sad side, nobody wishes anybody a Merry Christmas here. It's a more generic Happy Holidays. If you thought political correctness was crazy in Australia, it's totally out of control here. You don't wish people Merry Christmas for fear that it will offend their Jewish or Muslim sensitivities. As a result, nobody gets a true Christmas. Even the advertisements on TV advertise holiday specials. It's almost like Christmas is an offensive word, not to be used under any circumstances.
If I didn't know better, I'd swear that Christmas isn't even just around the corner. Maybe it's not; perhaps they celebrate Christmas in the middle of summer too, just like back home. That actually makes sense; around June I'll start spreading my Christmas cheer!
Regardless, we'll be having a great Christmas at home, so MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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