Here we are - less than 48 hours away from Christmas - can you believe it? That means we are a little over a week away from a whole new year - whoa! You know what they say... time flies when you're having fun! And I have to say, the last week/weekend has been pretty fun!
Wednesday night was the Christmas Party with my ladies group from church - and we always have the best time! We went with a plaid theme this year, as you can likely tell! We had pizza and all sorts of Christmas-y treats and played games - I even won a game! It was a lovely time together and so much fun! And I think our plaids all looked lovely!
Friday evening, Ryan and I went to eat at a new favorite for us: Cider Press! It's close to our home and has some of the best food; it's truly delicious and we have yet to have a bad meal or bad service there! Ryan was thrilled when we arrived and the special for the evening was Prime Rib and then he saw they also had asparagus as the veggie of the day, so my hubby was a very happy man while eating his dinner! We crashed pretty early because we were up bright and early on Saturday to head to DC for the day - to do some Christmas things!
We popped into the DC Holiday Market - which is filled with vendors selling all sorts of things; bath goods, jewelry, home furnishings, art, candy, tea, chocolate and so much more. They also have unique food stalls and musical performances throughout the day. It's a pretty neat market - but man, it gets crowded so quickly! It was a brisk day on Saturday and so after about an hour of perusing the market, we couldn't feel our fingers and toes and headed into Shake Shack for lunch!
After a delicious lunch of shack burgers and fries, we popped by the Capitol long enough to grab some pictures in front of the Capitol Tree and then headed for the main event of the day - the Museum of the Bible for a Christmas program called Everlasting Light. The show starred Tasha Layton, Anthony Evans and the Indiana Wesleyan University Chorale - and of course, the museum was decorated beautifully!
The program was a combination of scripture readings that lead up and illustrate Jesus' birth, combined with songs that tie in/respond back to the scripture. At times, all of us in the audience were asked to stand and sing along with the chorale and featured singers - it was all so beautiful and wonderful! And man - Tasha Layton and Anthony Evans - they can sing like nobody's business! Wow!
The program was so lovely and the perfect thing to really put our hearts in the right place as the week of Christmas approached! The show lasted about two hours and when it was done, we took some time to peruse the Christmas Market and snap some pictures, before heading home in the very thick DC traffic. Ick! Gotta love that holiday rush!
We had dinner at a delicious Italian restaurant in Haymarket called Guiseppe's - it was so tasty and the service was so quick; I was shocked! After a very good night's sleep on Saturday night, we headed to the Christmas service that our church was doing - it was an excellent service - and then made a last minute stop at Wal-Mart for some Christmas Eve and Christmas Day cooking items. I won't be stepping back into Wal-Mart between now and Christmas... because you know it will only get more nuts!
Sweet little Spook enjoyed some cozy time with me last night - he is not usually so snuggly and so I enjoyed soaking in his sleepy snuggles! I got especially tickled by his crossed feet, he is such a little oddball but goodness I love his little oddball self.
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