Christmas 2021

On December 1st, we wanted to go to the zoo with Leo.  We got to the zoo right at 9, when it usually opens, but today it was closed.  We found out later that for the month of December, they aren't opening until 11am!  So, we tried to think of something else we could do and since the Sunken Gardens are right there by the zoo anyway, that's where we decided to go.  We hadn't walked around the Sunken Gardens in ages and today made us wonder why we don't come here more often.  It really is a beautiful place.

Walking around in the Sunken Gardens took about an hour.  I didn't know it yet, but all the going up and down on all those steps in the Sunken Gardens was going to really really affect my left knee later on.

After we left the Sunken Gardens, we decided to go to the Botanical Gardens.

Here's Leo learning to make the snowflakes that I always make.

Christmas Day

We were lucky to have Fernando and family in town.  Their original plan was to be in Sweden for Christmas but with the virus cases getting worse, they decided to postpone their trip until the summer.