Christmas in Lenox.

After spending those short few days with Tina's family, we headed down to the states to spend the immediate post-Christmas time with family in Lenox.

Thursday night we had the family over for a nice Christmas dinner, and from what I can tell everyone enjoyed it....

Sitting down for dinner

It was good, as much as Tina was the main one itching to get back home and see everyone, it really is nice to get together with the whole family and talk to everyone again and catch up. Again, my mom attributes this all to Tina, as in the past there were long stretches where several years would go by without me getting home.

More stories about China and what the culture is really like were told, as much as I normally repeat stories even these stories did seem a bit repetitive to me, as now it's been the third time we are telling the same thing, albeit to a new group. At least we only have to tell them once or twice more in Chicago, but it is nice to know that everyone is that interested and enjoys listening to them...

After dinner Tina jump up and, fresh from her family, proceeded to organize everyone around so that she could get all of the required holiday family photos.

The Wichmann men

Unfortunately, the room was dark and without the flash most of the photos that Tina took came out either too dark or blurry. Hopefully everyone else managed to get good pictures and we can get copies of those files the next time that we come home.

Excellent food, and good conversation with family, although short it was a great time.