We had such a whirlwind holiday this year - 6 days to see two families - with three of those days primarily on the road. We spent Christmas eve and Christmas day proper with the Bornschlegel clan at Casa Krist, and had a wonderful time. On the Christmas eve, we spent our day at the Getty museum, and in the evening, conducted a thorough wine-tasting of many under $15 bottles of red wine. I startled myself by guessing the grapes correctly outloud for 3/5 bottles, and correctly in my head on a fourth. Wacky - i had no idea i was able to call my varietals that well. I wonder if it would be harder with higher-calibre wine....

On Christmas day, we spent much of the day making John's family recipe for ravioli. It's different from my family's (the Del Papas) recipe; it's a chicken, pork and chard ravioli. Dinner was fantastic, and we finished off the evening with a reading of my Christmas story from Russell, and a rousing game of Trivial Pursuit (that weird current edition with recent history and contemporized categories) which my team won on an embarrassing mind-meld between Jean and my brainmeats.

You know the rest of the game - clicky to see photos of Clan Bornschlegel!