Festivus for the Rest of us

Hmm, Santa brought us a ball of white fur...

It's a puppy! She's a street dog, so we've spent the last two weeks pumping her full of steroids, antibiotics, worm medicine, flagellate medicine, vitamins, and activated charcoal. She's much healthier now, though she still has a fairly distended belly. Her name is Clementine.

Oh and if you look out the window, you can see sunshine - it was about 25 C / 77 F that day. No snow in Ethiopia, I'm afraid.

I just wasn't in the mood to get dressed up for xmas, but the champagne was good.

One highlight was opening Patricia's grandfather's favorite wine, which we'd been hoarding for years. This one was a 1986 Chateau Haut-Marbuzet.

Gwendolyne got makeup for xmas, and did Patricia up right!

This is the kind of housing you have to look forward to when you join the Foreign Service.

Actually, Santa brought Clara a tent, so she had to set it up right away.