Monday, January 5, 2015

Family Christmas

Ryan came to Hong Kong for Christmas and we spent the day with Lily and Kevin at the new apartment. We have had the new apartment for about eight months now, so it is not really new, but I still think of it as the new apartment.

No one had to work on Christmas, which is unusual since most of us are in the entertainment industry, so we had a traditional Christmas Day at home. We all opened presents, ate too much and spent the day together. The only real difference from this Christmas and what I like to think of as real Christmas is that it was almost 70 degrees outdoors and we did not have a Christmas tree. You can buy fake trees in Hong Kong, but there are few things I loathe more than a fake Christmas tree. Where I grew up, we went out and chopped down our own trees for Christmas. They were all natural and you could smell them throughout the house. A fake tree is an insult to Christmas trees everywhere.

Other than that, it was a real Christmas since I got to spend the day with the closest thing I have to family in Hong Kong. All things considered, these are the people I would rather spend the holidays with. Or, these are the people with whom I would rather spend the holidays, if you are a book editor.

Ryan had to go back to China on the 26th, which was not exactly the end of the world since Lily and I had to go back to work as well. Christmas/New Year is the busiest time of year for all of us, so just having a day together is pretty good. It does not happen every year, so we are all grateful when it does.

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