Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas!!! I had my very first Chilean/American Christmas!!! First my family and I went over to the orphanage to visit our friend Rosalia, then we headed over to our friends John, Melinda and Amelie's house. The suegros, their exchange partner's in-laws, picked us up at John and Melinda's and we went to mass with them. After mass we went with the family back to their house, where we had a great meal and lots of fun and Christmas cookies. We left their house at 4:30 a.m. and went back to John and Melinda's where we spent the night, getting to bed after 5:00 in the morning, my record. The next day we woke up and stayed around John and Melinda's all morning in our PJs, played with Amelie, and had leftover Christmas cookies for breakfast! Then we opened presents. After a very spicy, but good lunch which Melinda made we all went out to the pool where Dad, Sarah, Amelie and I spent our first Christmas swimming in an outdoor pool. Too bad the others missed out on the fun. Later we hopped in a taxi and went home. When we arrived Sarah and I were sooooo suprised to see all kinds of Christmas presents under the tree. We were just expecting gifts from each other and there were gifts from mom and dad, Auntie Marge and Nana. We opened gifts, dad talked to Grandma and Aunt Linda in Texas, then we went straight to bed, we were sooooo tired!!! Even though we really missed everyone, we ended up having a really fun Christmas!!