Christmas wishes

Well we thought we would get in in advance and wish everyone a Merry Christmas, I hope everyone enjoys there family time.

The white christmas arrived with a blizzard last night and with the heaviest snow fall we have had for a while with about 6 inches of snow falling in a few hours, Philadelphia got 22 inches overnight so we just narrowly missed the centre of the storm front.

We thought we would venture out to grab some goodies from Wegmans but our car couldn't make it up the hill so after a few driver changes and lots of forward and reversing action Shammy managed to get the car back into our complex, with lots of celebrating from us. We then decided to make the most of it and trek our way through the snow to Wegmans, chilly but refreshing :). Needless to say with temps hovering around -6 degrees our heating got its first workout of the season.
I finished my law exam last week so now I just have to wait for the results and if all goes to plan I will be registered soon, fingers and toes crossed. We had our work christmas parties last week which were great fun and I managed to try some very yummy martinis at the Medicap one. Shammy is currently on 2 weeks of nights which will finish on christmas night. We are planning to spend christmas at Ash and Krish's place with a few friends of ours which will be great.

Winter is here again

Well today is the first day of heavy snowfall in allentown so I guess winter is really here again. I have been busy lately studying for the pharmacy registration exams, one down, one more to go (law) on the 17th of December. I haven't got results back yet from the first one (clinical), it was pretty challenging and I didn't feel overly confident when I finished it but my friend Nina assured me thats how everyone feels when they finish it.

Shammy's wisdom tooth removal went well and he is now proudly pulling out the dissolvable stitches to show me when they dislodge while he is eating, yuk!

We spent thanksgiving with our friends, Ash and Krish and their children Om and Shiva. Om is a little buddha and I definitely felt his weight when I was carrying him around, he loves being bounced around but my arms can only take so much of that.

We are just awaiting the arrival of Shammy's visa from the Australian consulate and then we will organise flights to Australia and then India next February and March. It also involves a paperwork trail to sort out documentation and immigration forms before I go so that I can update my visa to America when I return to Australia.

We have just signed up with a few friends of ours to do a 4 mile midnight run in central park for New Years, should definitely be an experience! A bus leaves here with a group of runners and after the run they provide champagne and Hoagies (sandwiches in a long shaped bread roll, hmm come to think of it I hope they come in a vegetarian variety, if not I'll just have to rely on the champagne :) ). Shammy is working the next day so I'll be interested to see how he pulls up for that.

We have also registered for the hilly 10km race that we did last year in the snow, to see if we can improve on our times.

Happy Christmas and New Years to everyone and know we will be thinking of you all!!!!!!

x Sammy and Shammy