Christmas

Well, Christmas is over, but we've just now gotten the snow for it. Aaron and I were in Deadwood, picking up our paychecks, and I had to have my gaming license renewed. It started snowing, and in that HOUR we were going around town, my car was covered in at least two inches of thick, wet, heavy snow. It was pretty scary to drive home through the hills. Eeek!

We celebrated Christmas with Aaron's parents on Monday morning before he and I had to go to work, where I met Aaron's older brother, as well. His parents are the type of people who love to give gifts, and so we came home with quite a few great things. Aaron got a coffee maker and a blender from his parents, I got a quilt rack for all the blankets in the living room, which is very beautiful, a photo "ferris wheel" picture holder, which makes the little frames like the seats on a ferris wheel, and it rotates. We also got a very nice glass chess/checkers/tic tac toe/backgammon set from Aaron's brother, Eric, and a wine box made of bamboo that holds two bottles of wine, and Aaron got me something to put under my laptop that has fans in it, plugs into my USB port, and keeps my laptop from overheating, and I got him a wire cookbook holder for the kitchen. I have a couple other things on order for him, but they were just delivered the other day.

Then on Wednesday, Aaron and I went to Rapid City to hang out with his friend Brandi, and he needed to exchange a coat he'd recieved as a gift from his sister and her husband. We were going to go to Olive Garden, but there was a 10 minute wait to get on the waiting list, so we went to Chili's instead. Then later in the night we had a dinner party at our apartment, and Lars and his girlfriend Whitney came over, and we had chicken and risoto, which was great.

And those are my last few days. I think my mom and sister are coming up to Deadwood if the weather gets nicer on New Years, so that will be fun. I think they just use me living so close to Deadwood as an excuse to go gamble, 'cause they never did it before. Hehe. Not that it bothers me, 'cause I don't have the time to come visit them on the weekends like they can come visit me, so it's nice. And there's more to do in Deadwood than my hometown.