Wednesday, December 24

Christmas Ornament #11: ???

Hey, we made it to the present!  Despite four nights in the hospital this week, we managed to not only buy an ornament, but I even wrote up this blog post!  2 weeks ago, we went into the city primarily to visit the Chicago Art Institute.  (When you live here you just talk about going to "the city".  People never say they're going to "Chicago".)  The art institute is free on Thursday evenings (for Illinois residents) and the girls really wanted to go, so we made the trek and had a good time.  But if you're going to go all the way into the city, you'd better get your money's worth, so we also stopped by the bean, and the Christkindlmarket.  As you can tell by all those words smashed together to make one big word, this is a German thing.  It's a traditional outdoor market where they sell food and Christmas-y things.  So, we stopped by and picked up an ornament.  Now, I know that it was probably mass produced in Asia somewhere, but we'll pretend that it was hand carved by some little German shepherd or something.  Either way, it's from the big city and now lives on our tree.

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