N1548Papa

Merry Christmas to all! We hope everyone had a wonderful week celebrating the birth of our Savior with your family and friends. We love this time of year!! Like it said in one of our Christmas cards, "warm Christmas is weird when you come from the cold..." Although on Christmas morning it POURED down rain just long enough to make it seem kinda cold and we could pretend it was snowing :) Of course after just an hour it cleared up and the sun came out and it was a pleasant 70F so we can't complain!

We had a non-traditional 2 footer evergreen this year...harvested in the wild forests of Florida. Obviously when picking out our tree, we didn't plan in advance about hanging ornaments...nothing would stay on those needles, not even lights! So we sprinkled Bougainvillea leaves all over and placed a few pine cones around and called it good :) We didn't plan on waking up early, but a call from George's Pops at 7 am woke us, and after a pleasant chat with him we decided we should probably open presents!

For some reason the knowledge of a lite brite slipped by the Lewis family. Alethea and George created this lite brite as a backdrop for our tree, nicely done! Does everyone else know what a lite brite is?

By far the best Christmas present this year was my first heli ride with my dear hub-a-lub pilot! He really is amazing!! I felt completely comfortable with him in command...he knew what was up with all the instruments and it was a very smooth ride. Ohhh it was SO fun to fly! No wonder he loves it...getting to do that everyday, I'm jealous! The radio would totally stress me out, but George has the perfect voice and has all the calls down and understands all the jibber jabber that comes across. On our ride we flew over the Port Saint John River and got to see some alligators out sunning. Then we headed out to the Atlantic and flew along the coast. At one point we flew over a 1000' radio tower which was awesome because it gave me some perspective to how high we actually were. I'm so proud of him for all his hard work and studying. Oh, and N1548Papa was our chopper's tail number.

You can't get a pic of him looking at the camera while flying because he's always having to scan or check out the instruments...such a good pilot :)

On Christmas day we ate lunch at some friend's house...it was quite the spread! They were so generous to invite us over since we are far away from family. Then we had Borge, one of George's classmates, over for dinner. He is from Norway and away from family this year. We had a great visit and it was fun to learn about Norway...they say God Jul for Merry Christmas...it kind of sounded like good year.

And yet again a Christmas goes by without me sending out cards...one of these years I tell ya! Just know that we love you and wish you all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!