Home for the Holidays

The old classic Christmas carol was right, there is no place like home for the holidays. Over all we had a nice trip home and enjoyed our time with family and being back in our own country. Seth’s dad’s surgery was very successful and the entire family appreciated all the love, concern and prayers we got from so many people.

It was fantastic being with family again, especially during Christmas. We really enjoyed spending time with our nieces and nephew and we were trilled to see our dog Desiree again and soaked up as much time with her as we could. We apologize to all our friends and family that we missed out on seeing; hopefully we’ll get to see you over the summer.

I was missing winter weather in Egypt but we defiantly got our share of it on this trip. It was snowing when we arrived and we had several snow and ice storms and even one freak wind storm while home. I was ready to get back to the consistent weather of Alexandria.

We defiantly satisfied a lot of our food cravings while we were home, especially with it being the holidays and the abundance of food around. Kristal’s mom was great about asking what foods we missed and cooking them for us. However, we didn’t get to any of the restaurants we were missing; we’ll have to go to Chipotle and Cold Stone this summer. The other great thing about coming home is that we got the chance to pick up a few things that we didn’t think to bring or realized we can’t get in Egypt and also a few warmer clothes since it doesn’t stay in the 100 degree range all year round like you always imagine the Egyptian dessert to be like. The number one thing we bought to bring back....Crystal Lite! And I think I should get some kind of award for my skills at packing and the way I was able to make every single one of those packets fit into something else as to not take up any extra space.

But after a month of living out of a suitcase and jumping around from house to house we were ready to come back home to Egypt.