Christmas in Kuwait.

Christmas "vacation" started of nicely. I only had a few days off, while others had weeks. Luckily, most of my friends were spending Christmas in Kuwait. We started off the month right by having a cookie decorating party/movie marathon. Rolled out the sugar cookies and cut/decorated our own ones. After finishing that, and having them cool, we ate them right up and watched How The Grinch Stole Christmas--the Jim Carrey version.

We also got to go to a Christmas festival...in Kuwait! WHAT? An international school hosted a market/concert/etc dedicated to santa. Weird snowmen and snowflakes wandered around for pictures, local stores and handmade artists sold items for charities or to advertise, and there was a gift raffle. Which I entered, and WON! Score. A haircut and blowdry. Hey, it's still a win! Even if i'm horrified to get my hair cut here and just need a trim.

Well, this was my first year, ever, spending Christmas away from my family. I was sure I'd be sulking under a snuggie watching A Christmas Story alone, but surprisingly that wasn't the case! Abboud and I had our Tree up since before Thanksgiving; the spirit wasn't the problem. We had santa hats, stockings, wrapped presents, etc. I was just worried Abboud would have work (since christmas isn't celebrated by the majority, they don't have off for it) and everyone else would travel.

Well, he ended up having work except he took off! :D So, even though I was away from everyone, he made it a very special Christmas. Our first one together and his first celebrated. On Christmas Eve we watched Christmas movies, snuggled up with our animals and stayed in. When we woke up, we opened presents!!! A new ipod for him, piano keyboard for me...and of course a bone for the dog and catnip toy for the kitty. We made a grilled lunch on his new toy (steak and ribs...couldn't get the oink oink ordered.) Did you know the US base here sells pork? So if you know someone there, they have anything and everything that oinks. But little did I know that everyone buys up the ham immediately around Christmas. Whomp. And at night we went to a game night over a friends.

Very well spend Christmas, though of course I was missing everyone :(