Christmas prep - surreal... confusing... awkward...

 

I (Bruce) just went to the grocery store.  

So, there was Frosty the Snowman playing, and I instinctively glanced around and noticed that the first 10 people I saw were wearing shorts and flip-flops like myself. Then came a techno-mix of Jingle Bells. This pretty well sums up the last 5 Christmas's we've spent in Brazil. However, this year will be different. We will be stepping into the fridge (Minneapolis) next week... then into the freezer (Winnipeg) the following.

As I left the store, I turned on my car's air-conditioning full-blast as I proceeded home through the sand dunes... because #1. I thought that might help me get a little bit more into "the season", and #2. Because this is always what I do to try to beat the heat. Somehow the air-onditioning did the trick a bit more than my beach massage earlier in the day, the landscaping I did with our gardener, or topping off the water in our outdoor pool.

Happy Christmas prep everyone!!!