Merry belated Christmas, Guardians!
Our holidays got off to a bit of a rocky start, and by the time things settled down, I made the decision to stay offline, relax and enjoy the (shortened) time we had with family. I’ve just caught up on all your excellent Christmas posts here in this thread, but I’ll apologize for not quoting/commenting, as there would be too many!
Our Christmas plans this year were to spend the holiday at my brother’s house in St. Louis. A day or two before we were set to drive down, I had a bit of a stomach issue going on, which I chalked up to something I had eaten. It certainly wasn’t pleasant, but it basically amounted to one rough night, and by the next day I was feeling better, so I didn’t think too much of it.
Saturday morning we loaded up the car and headed for St. Louis, about a 9 hour drive for us. Well, it turns out the stomach thing I had was, in fact, of the contagious variety. I’ll spare you all the details, but let it suffice to say that both kids became ill during the drive, and it was not fun.
We obviously didn’t want to get anyone else sick, so rather than heading to my brother’s place, we booked a hotel for the night, and ended up staying two nights until all of our symptoms had subsided (my wife came down with the same thing the first night at the hotel, as well, so it managed to get us all).
Thankfully, our 36-hour quarantine (along with diligent handwashing and surface-sanitizing the rest of the week) seemed to have worked, and no one else got sick. We had a nice Christmas, pretty low-key for the most part. Here are a few pics from the week.
My Ringed Gidgee Albers served as my Lambsfoot for most of the week.
I hope you all had a great Christmas, Hanukkah, Festivus or whatever else you celebrate. Cheers, everyone!
. I got a machine screw at Lowe's to cobble together my failed revolver grips, and groceries at Meijer's, which was a little expensive because I bought the ingredients for non-alcoholic mulled wine by Nicolette of Home-cooked roots.
