Christmas and New Year's Festivities

This year, we celebrated Christmas and both of my parents’ birthdays together at Goo Ma’s house. As always, there was too much great food, festive decorations, and presents! “Singapore Santa” may have gone a little overboard, but that’s ok!

We ate and ate, opened presents, played mahjong, and I slept (I was sick…and thanks for the bed, Katie!) My dad was the big mahjong winner so after a few stops to find a gas station that sold lotto tickets, he picked up some tickets hoping to keep his lucky streak alive. Unfortunately, his good fortune didn’t translate to lotto number picking. Guess we’ll just have to keep playing mahjong then!




After spending some time in West Palm, we took the family holiday show on the road. Next stop: Hilton Head, South Carolina. My parents and I drove up to Orlando Friday night to Dave’s and spent the night there. On Saturday, we drove to Hilton Head to meet up with the rest of the family who left from West Palm that morning. After some Daytona Beach bbq for lunch, lots of traffic jams, and many hours of driving later, we ended up at our home away from home for the next few days!

When we weren’t just relaxing at home (and watching the SVU or Project Runway marathons), we spent the days taking in the sights, playing some DDR, going on a bike ride, playing mahjong, and of course eating! Thanks, Rachel Ray for the dinner tip…even if you only had enough left in your day for an $8.99 appetizer for dinner on your $40 a day budget!






Only an hour away, we took hit the road again for a day trip down to Savannah, Georgia for New Years Eve day. While there we took a trolley tour of the city, bought taffy, candy and brittle at a candy factory, strolled the streets, and ended out trip with dinner at Paula Deen’s restaurant where we tried to feast on good old southern cooking…even though most everyone was still full from lunch (Good find, Katie!) Not me though, I purposely laid low on the earlier meals in the day in anticipation for the fried chicken and mac and cheese!

After visiting Savannah, it was back to Hilton Head to ring in 2008! We were such a lively bunch…We spent the night watching tv waiting for midnight to come along. After much channel surfing, we ended up switching between some disturbing “most bizarre moments caught on tape” or something like that and some other shows on TLC and Animal Planet before watching the ball drop and some underwhelming record breaking motorcycle jump.



Happy New Year! Here’s to a wonderful 2008!