Flight home, and Family Christmas party

A super early morning this morning, what with having to catch a flight out of the Seattle/Tahoma airport at 8.30am. Wendy is fine with driving again, and even though there is still snow on the ground, it is pretty clear. We took a small car ferry across instead of driving around the freeway, SO COLD!

For the first time I saw a plane I was traveling in get de-iced before takeoff. That was kinda cool, if disconcerting.

Arriving back in California was great, I missed Erich a LOT.

In the afternoon we headed up to San Francisco to Erich's aunts place for the family Christmas party. SO LOUD! everyone talked so very loud a couple of times my ears rang.
After the kids opened all their gifts, the adults played a game of White Elephant, which is similar to my family's $2 pressie game. In White Elephant each person brings an item from their own home that they no longer want (new stuff!) and people take turns to "steal" or open a new gift.
it was a fun night. :-)