Day 12

Day 12

Chickens, cluck, crow, and sometimes they scream, its quite terrifying. Anyway today is Christmas Eve. Made breakfast this morning for a German family of four. They have a son who is 6’ 9” and it’s the big hubbub that he is sooo tall, the bed is to short, ha ha, blah blah. After that Jeremiah and I helped Reiner put up more soffeting, nice easy day. Talked to Marianna about how long we are going to stay and I think we will be here til mid March, two more whole months, that sounds good to us : ) Jeremiah is feeling much better. Doesn’t really feel like Christmas, its so weird being here. If its warm tomorrow I want to go to the beach. I don’t know if we’ll have to work or not, make breakfast at the least. So after Christmas is our second day off, already? Crazy! Hang drying all our laundry feels so nice, its so warm it just seems ridiculous to use the dryer, they don’t, its for towels only so they don’t get crunchy. Its kind of crazy that me and everyone else on the Hawaiian islands are closer to president Obama during Christmas then anyone else in the world. I mean what are the chances that me and him and his family are in the middle of the pacific at the same time. It’s a small world is all I’m saying. So we piddled around until it was time for our Christmas dinner at six. It was so awesome to get to hang out with everybody without work in the way. I feel like we all just get along and laugh. Even though I have only known these people less then two weeks, one less then two days, we already feel some comfortable with them, enough to celebrate the holiday with. Dinner for us vegetarians was plenty of wine, baked potatoes, asparagus, broccoli, and salad ( a lot of veggies). Then we all piled in the back of the truck and went to sing carols at church. There was candle light and the Christmas story and a lot of singing. Then they served fancy cheese, champagne, and cake afterwards. It was 11:30 p.m. by the time I went to bed and since we get up at 6:30 that the longest I have stayed up in a while, so we got and extra fifteen minutes to get around the next morning. Anyway for new people, no presents, it was a lovely and spiritual, beautiful familial, Christmas celebration. I loved it.