While we have already impressed you with a christmas post, we decided to do a second in honor of the epiphany, AKA "Three Kings Day AKA "Little Christmas." This one will be entirely dedicated to our personal christmas celebrations and adventures. So.
Welcome to "The Ultimate Christmas Story"
Christmas Eve:
Great. It all started on Christmas Eve. We both
had to work. Not a big deal. It was only until 12:30 and we weren't having a crowd for Dinner. Which brings us to the theme of our christmas. Eating. We have been eating non-stop since christmas eve. This post will mostly consist of our food menus.
Anyway, Christmas Eve we invited our ex-pat friend Chrissy over for Vigilia-Christmas Eve Fish Dinner for those of you that don't know the polish word.
We ate:
Pierogies (made from scratch- first time ever!!)
Baked stuffed shrimp (medium shrimp because we couldn't find jumbo, but still delicious)
White fish battered and fried (no idea what kind of white fish, we picked one at random)
Mashed Potatoes
Candied Yams
Stuffed Mushrooms
and Bernaise sauce! Yay! my mom sent us some in a care package. What's christmas dinner with out bernaise sauce?! Boring. That's what.
For dessert we had:
sugar cookies (boring i know, but we were going to be so full)
After Chrissy left we opened cards and gifts that we had gotten from our co-teachers and then we watched "A Muppet Family Christmas"
Christmas Day:
We woke up and opened stocking presents. Jamie got me a whole bunch of art supplies and candy and I got him a whole bunch of games and a waffle iron.
So. for breakfast we had:
Peirogies
Potatoes
Eggs (all with bernaise)
and Waffles! I found this great recipie online that is mostly all sugar and milk. Delicious.
We lounged around for a few hours called lots of family and friends and then had lunch.
A co-teacher of mine bought a MASSIVE about of bulgogi (korean BBQ) and gave it to me on Christmas Eve so we ate that.
And then for dinner we had Salmon, Asparagus, the rest of the pierogies and more potatoes. (and salad).
Second Day of Christmas
The next morning we were going to have waffles again, but realized that we had used all of our butter (2 pounds of it) so we suffered with omlettes and potatoes.
New Years Eve
For New Years we went Ice Skating at the Peace Gate in Olympic Park and made Mondu Gu (dumping soup) and White Russians for lunch. then headed downtown to have dinner and drinks with our friend Christina. We ended up at a cozy little Canadian Bar with live music, champagne at midnight and a fun crowd. We hung out, got our New Years Countdown and kiss and then packed up to go back home.
The Rest of the 12 Days of Christmas
Most evenings we've been sitting by the fire (Mom Keller sent us a DVD of a fire place), admiring our charming christmas tree, and watching christmas movies. We're watched one each night for the 12 days.
Little Christmas AKA The Three Kings AKA the Epiphany
In Shannon's house they celebrate three kings, so as you can see we've been celebrating all 12 days. But we also decided to exchange gifts on that day and have a delicious dinner/party. We actually had two. ON the kings we invited our Winter Camp co-workers over for drinks and on Saturday the 9th we invited our Co-teachers over for another little shindig.
Exciting things about the Ultimate Christmas:
Drinks:
We've learned how to make Eggnog from scratch! Of course, without a blender it takes some time, but it's certainly added to the christmas spirit and we're really excited about our new LionKiller Specialty.
Ice Skating:
Super Cheap (1000 won included skate time and rentals) and in korea, the one syllable word "skate" becomes 4 syllables. "suh kA ee tuh"
Snow:
Not a super amount but enough to cover the streets and sidewalks. And thankfully in korea they dont' seem to plow or salt so it feels like a winters worth of snow your trudging through!
