Merry Christmas! It was a little tough not being home with family for Christmas, but being able to talk to our parents on Skype made it feel a lot less lonely. Christmas morning Amanda and I slept in quite late, which felt wonderful :) After we rolled out of bed Amanda prepared some spectacular french toast for breakfast, which was absolutely delicious. After we enjoyed breakfast and cleaned up a bit, we talked to our parents a bit more on Skype and then laid in bed and watched A Christmas Story; it just isn't Christmas unless you watch it at least once! It hardly felt like we were in Korea the whole day, and watching the movie reminded us both of all the traditions we enjoy back home. After our lazy afternoon we began preparing our Christmas dinner of baked chicken with homemade orange sauce, mash potatoes, deviled eggs, and perhaps a beer or two. Prior to beginning the meal preparations we made some appetizers of baked water-chestnuts soaked in soy sauce wrapped in bacon, mmm yum yum. We spent less than a couple hours preparing our feast, and it all turned out wonderful! The chicken baked better than I could have predicted in the toaster oven, the mash potatoes were exquisite, and the deviled eggs were the icing on the cake. It was a meal fit for kings, or at least one king and one queen. One of the best Christmases I've had, and certainly the most memorable first Christmas Amanda and I spent together.
Cooking breakfast
Wanting to eat breakfast... One of Amanda's more lovely faces.
Baking the water-chestnuts wrapped in bacon.
Rubbing the chicken with a garlic butter mixture before baking.
Only one cutting casualty the whole weekend, not bad. (Stupid potatoes...)
Our Christmas feast.
Baked chicken.
Mash potatoes.
Orange sauce.
Deviled eggs.
Licking our plates clean.
Wrapping the evening up with a little wine, beer and Sequence.
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