The Laughlins

For Christmas Eve, we went to our friend, Audra's apartment (and Mark finished and turned in his Jeremiah paper). There were about 16 of us altogether. Everyone brought something to contribute to the dinner, and it was like Thanksgiving all over again. We had turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, vegetables, bread, etc....all of the fixins. After dinner, Bryce (guitar) and Amanda (violin) played a number of Christmas carols that we all sang. It made me very happy to sing. I was worried that I might not be doing that this year. Amanda and Audra read from Luke, and we all had a great time. Afterwards, about eight of us headed to the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in the Old City for a 10:30pm service. Unfortunately, between all of the candles and the standing-room-only-full church, my cough got the best of me, and Mark and I had to leave after about 20 minutes :( We walked to the city center to catch a bus and got to see some lights here and there before we went home. It was a fun evening. There will be videos coming soon...I promise.