Christmas celebrations

One Christmas Eve tradition from the US held true in Taiwan: steak! I was sad to hear that our usual Christmas Eve dinner restaurant has closed it doors - forcing my family to move it to a new location this year. But I was with them in spirit, as we had a nice dinner at the famous American/Australian steakhouse:
It is located on the "Love River" so we had to dress up a little bit!

We came home and watched "It's a Wonderful Life," which kept us up until after midnight. [Actually that was better than the night before, when the family was up until 2am wrapping presents. These people are crazy! Most everyone we know in Chengdu is in bed by 10 or 11.] Then Christmas morning, we opened gifts - not at the usual Miller time (5am or something ridiculous like that) but at the reasonable 7:30 or 8. I was the last one up, no surprise there. But even with the sleep, Rachel looks like she could use a couple more hours...

The highlight of the morning was Sarah's gift to Becca - a real, genuine Coach bag and wallet. Pretty swanky! Becca obviously enjoyed.
And of course, there was good southern cookin'. We had turkey and all the fixins, and 3 kinds of pie to wash it all down.
Merry Christmas!

-alan