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Candycane Lane

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2013

So Christmas was very different this year. It was the first time I spent the holidays apart from my family but my new family kept me way too busy to get homesick.

New Years Day itself was extra busy. We were in Seattle in the morning and in Vancouver in the evening. We (my hostmum's sister Gale's family, auntie Gina, my hostparents, Maya, Quentin and me) left from Seattle early in the morning and went on a roadtrip up to the grand parents' house in Vancouver. In the end we were like 27 people. The food was fantastic, I got the best giftts from my family and it was just a really fun christmas.

A few nights after Christmas we went to a street in Vancouver called Trinity Street. The houses in Trinity St are famous for their Christmas light, in fact, they enter a Christmas Light competition every year! It reminded me a lot of Candycane Lane in New Girl, so that's the explanation for the post title. I should actually start explaining the titles because I heard from people that my post titles are confusing..

The grand-children. From left to right: Matthew, Quentin, Nathalia, Nathaniel, Faith, Maya, Jennifer, Trinity, Me, great-aunt, Sam, grand-mom, Mycah grand-dad, Jack

Those were my favorite houses in Trinity St. The lights were just amazing. The third one was so creative. They had their own radio station with music that matched the lights (or did the lights match the music) and you could tune in from you car and listen to the music while watching! Sorry for the bad quality, I was too lazy to get out of the car, so I shot the pictures as we drove by.

And sorry about the blabbering in the background, but I just had to share this video.

Me + Computers = ??????????

Sorry, I don't really know what I did there, but the Vancouver post and the Seattle post got posted in the wrong order.
So I want to make it clear, that I was in Seattle first and then in Vancouver, just so you guys don't get confused.

xxx

Emerald City

HELLO SEATTLE

Seattle has been top of my bucket list of places I have to visit since forever! It is the home of Macklemore, Grey's Anatomy, Jimi Hendrix and Starbucks, I mean.. Need I say more?

I am so lucky, that my mom has family here, so we all came here to visit her side of the family over Christmas. We're going to spend Dec. 20 - Dec. 25 here and then we (mom, dad, Maya, Quentin and auntie Gale with husband and kids) are going to go on a roadtrip up to Vancouver to spend Christmas and New Year's with the rest of the clan. (We are going to be 25 people!)

This city is a really beautiful place and finally, I am back in a big city! It is really cold, but I am having a great time. On the 21st, we went to all the typical touristic places, like the Space Needle, the Public Market and the Seattle Waterfront. It was really interesting and I got the awesomest Seattle Sweater ♥