Happy Holidays from the Flamingeaux

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November

Joyce spent Thanksgiving with her dad this year. But that didn't mean Ana sat home alone. No, this was the Third Annual Thanksgiving at Garden City, a local restaurant and (gasp!) card club. But they stay in the restaurant and have great food, and it's usually not crowded (in that part anyway) at all. This year the participants with her were Claudia, Janet, brother Christian and friend Gwen. Seafood and ostrich seemed to be the prevalent foods of choice -- not a turkey to be found.

Then on the second day of Thanksgiving, Friday that is, Ana joined Claudia, Gwen and Janet again for Thanksgiving Dinner with Gwen's family. After totally stuffing themselves further, they then worked some of it off playing a rousing game of Trivial Pursuit Genus IV - who knew they had that many genuses, I ask you! Tho' the race was close and exciting, it was Janet and her team that pulled away at the end and won! They are looking forward to next year's rematch. (TOP)

December

Chanukkah this year is early, in the beginning of the month. The gals first celebrated with Tsemach Adonai at Erev Shabbat dinner on Friday the 3rd. Ana baked the birthday cake to celebrate the December birthdays. She went all out with the decorations (wink!) when she made a large round cake, put a platform in the middle, then set a hanukkiah on the platform. So it wasn't the most involved decoration she's done in awhile, it was quite inspiring.

Then on Saturday Tsemach Adonai joined with another congregation for a joint Chanukkah celebration. The kids did a variation on the old standard called "The Eight Days of Chanukkah" which they made up themselves during Shabbat School. After that they performed the story of the Macabees defeating Antiochus Epiphanes - here they are wielding their swords looking mighty intimidating!

So you thought the gals had seen enough of Disneyland in October, did ya? Well they went again, this time to see the holiday lights, and "It's a Small World" in all it's holidays-around-the-world splendor. They flew down Sunday morning early, were at the park by 9:00, and didn't leave until after 8:00 that evening. It was an incredibly long day, but they were joined by their friend Woody, and they had a fantastic time. Ana was able to capture some of the magic on video so they could relive their Disney days over and over and over and ...

Joyce played her violin and sang in the choir again this year in Valley Christian's Christmas concert. Again, Ana was manning the video camera so they'll be able to relive these musical moments ad infinitum! Don't ya just love the holidays!

Joyce spent a few days with her Dad for the holidays, then came home again on the 27th to open presents with her mom, Aunt BooBoo and Nana.

One last trip to Disneyland for the year proved to be too much. The masses had fallen upon the Happiest Place on Earth and made it crowded and unpleasant the week after Christmas. After one afternoon, the gals decided that it would be more fun to spend the next two days doing other things; on Wednesday they drove to San Diego to the world famous zoo. What a fantastic place this is. And the flamingos were waiting at the rail to greet them as they walked in! The following day, again they avoided Walt's famous locale and went to the movies instead; they were totally enthralled with Jodie Foster's newest movie creation, "Anna and the King" which is a wonderful production of a favorite story. It is long, but well worth enduring.
On New Years Eve Ana and Joyce spent the evening with the Tsemach Adonai crowd at a Talent Show and Dessert Contest. Joyce played Ode to Joy on her violin (Ana accompanied on the piano); and their dessert, a sequined box in the shape of a champagne bottle with foil-wrapped chocolate balls "spilling" out, won for Most Representative of the Holiday. At 10:00 they toasted the new year because, as the saying goes, it's New Years somewhere in the world! The gals were home by 11:30 to watch the festivities on TV and toast in the new year together. Midnight rolled around and the world did not end.

The day after New Years found our ladies back at the Tech Museum once again, this time to catch Walt Disney's "Fantasia 2000" movie on the phenomenal IMAX dome. What a tremendous production, and such an awesome place to watch it. Great music, great animation (both old fashioned hand-drawn and new-fangled computer generated stuff!) Walt would be proud. It's a good thing the power was on, since Ana had to get those tickets well in advance of the show! This one will have sold out performances thru the run, I'm sure!


So now we are at the end of the year, the end of the century, the end of the millennium. We don't know what the new year will bring; Y2K isn't the end of the world as predicted, but it's potential problems still hang over the world like a spectre. The rest of the world may cower in fear and worry, but we trust in the Lord to provide and keep us in His loving and merciful hand. We pray that you are as blessed as we are. (TOP)

Happy New Millennium! from Ana and Joyce Williams

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