Happy Holidays

Christmas at the Canceko house

Roger and I flew out to SoCal to celebrate Christmas with my family. We spent the first half of our vacation in Palm Springs and the second half in Los Angeles. Details to come!

Belated Thanksgiving

Lynna, Peter, and Genevieve in the National Museum of the American Indian

Roger and I were fortunate enough to spend Thanksgiving with our good Stanford friends in the DC area. Peter and Lynna kindly let us stay in their apartment and Christina hosted an awesome dinner. We also got to catch up with Jolie and Nancy, who were in town visiting.

We spent a few days museum hopping, including a visit to the Smithsonian museums on Air and Space and the new National Museum of the American Indian.


Close-up of exhibit at the NMAI

On Thursday, we all met up at Christina's for the holiday feast, complete with a few tasty vegan options!


The Thanksgiving table, our hostess on the left

Feeling fully sated from the delicious turkey and fixings, we decided to walk off the food coma and drove to the mall to pose for pictures in front of the monuments.


In front of the Jefferson memorial


Back at Chez Russell, the whole gang, Naranja-plus!

We came back to the apartment and spent the rest of the evening swapping stories, watching Survivor (the Flip episode - got me hooked!), and playing Taboo.

The rest of our weekend was really nice and sunny. We visited a couple more museums, including the Spy Museum, and, of course, a few bookstores (Politics and Prose, Kramers, Olssons, etc.), as well as several coffeeshops (Murky's Coffee and Misha's).


Roger and Genevieve enjoying lattes in Alexandria

A wonderful holiday overall!