So every year when I'm home for Christmas, my mother and I make Christmas cookies. This year was no different. I took a picture, but it didn't turn out too fantastic, so let me describe the cookies we made. We made:
- Vanilla crescents-- a powdered sugar and a chocolate variety
- layered raspberry cookies -- with two different shapes, a heart and a star
- decorated cut-out sugar cookies - with santas, christmas trees, apples, ducks, moons, stars, hearts, shooting stars, and mini hearts. We decorated them in different rainbow colored icing sugar with regular sprinkles, heart-shaped sprinkles, and chocolate sprinkles. And there is a completely chocolate-covered variety as well!
- coconut puffs (they melt in your mouth!)
- and some apricot nibblers are still in the works!
Tomorrow I'm going to the pool to get my first sunburn. I should be good after that. I'm trying to plan a trip - probably hiking in the Bale Mountains - for after Christmas. The idea is to go to the furthermost campsite (which is far and you can get there only partially by donkey and horse) and then hike from there -- it'll be cold, which is the only downside, and my brother will be rationing food. Last time I was there, my friends and I had a Bombay Sapphire gin drinking competition as soon as we got up (but we never went as far as the last campsite!). After a good five hour's hike and in over 9,000 feet altitude. Needless to say, we all pretty much spent the night puking. I'll refrain from that this time. But I am excited, excited, excited!!! :)
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