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The end of the holidays

Well, after 4 family gift exchanges, 2 white elephant events, a last minute successful creation of a gag gift, 1 Christmas dinner, somewhere in the area of 15 batches of cookies, 0 loafs of pumpkin bread, 35 hours of driving, 1 bad decision to trust the GPS, 6 states and a district visited, 6 hours of Bones, 10 or so hours of Playhouse Disney, 2.2 viewings of Kung Fu Panda, a poor performance of Oliver at the King Center in Melbourne, a fantastic performance of West Side Story at the National Theatre in Washington DC, an impromptu walk to the White House, a highly anticipated visit to Orlando Ice, 4 very dead paper targets by way of a couple boxes of lead by way of 4 pistols, a wedding rehearsal, a wedding dinner, a wedding reception, an actual wedding, a fast trip to Walgreens to pick up honeymoon car decorating supplies, a wedding toast, 4 car packings, the largest game of hand and foot I ever want to play, a rousing game of Bond-opoly, a traumatic wasp sting to a sleeping 7 year old, a carsick episode 9 minutes before the end of a 9 hour trip, a sad but close Clemson bowl game, 17 relaxing days off from work, and one arrival back at home, the 2008 Christmas season is complete.