Holiday Sweets

Hello friends,

I haven't written for a few days; things have been a little nuts with lots of homework, tests, the holidays, and other obligations.

Last weekend I held a holiday tea party with a cookie exchange and got some early Christmas gifts to boot!! This vintage Betty Boop is from my friend Robin, who found it at an estate sale. Isn't she darling??? I also got a Betty Boop apron - just love it!!!

Today we went downtown for the family fun festival as part of the Holiday Lights Festival. As a holiday gift to the city, various cultural landmarks - museums, the libraries, etc are open without admission and offer things like hot chocolate - particularly welcome today with -25 windchills!, stage coach rides on the Wells Fargo Bank stage coach, a chance to see the mounted police horses and training facility, ice skating, opera omaha and the symphony, the 50-ft Christmas tree at the old Union train station ( I remember going there with my grandfather to see the trains come and go - it is now a museum), holiday miniatures and the list goes on and on. You park at one of the venues and take shuttle buses to the remaining venues that you're interested in.