{"id":464,"date":"2010-12-26T05:03:22","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T10:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=464"},"modified":"2010-12-26T14:11:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T19:11:55","slug":"christmas-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=464","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=460\">late goings on<\/a> last night, we weren&#8217;t exactly early risers this morning.  I think I was up at 9 or so and Mary Jo was awake and wandering about at 10:30.  We did a little Internet browsing to get ourselves fully awake.  Once we had the coherence to actually create full sentences, we decided it was time to bust open the gifts!<\/p>\n<p>Mary Jo got tasty foods.  She got me a whopping 4 presents, so I opened up the first couple to discover a chocolate bar and some of those Tender Milka things we mentioned a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=369\">ways back<\/a>.  Joni opened her first gift and found a German Christmas song book.  She seemed to be pleased.  My second two were a pack of soft orange cakes (yummy) and a wooden model.  It&#8217;s a velociraptor made of wood!  Look for a whole post about that in the future.  Mary Jo&#8217;s second book was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Extended_Phenotype\">The Extended Phenotype<\/a> by Richard Dawkins, in German.<\/p>\n<p>We then decided it was time for &#8220;breakfast&#8221;.  Of course it was 11:30 or something, but whatever.  We had it all planned.  We were going to make Kaiserschmarrn!  This is where a big problem or complication would add a lot of tension and drama, but there wasn&#8217;t any.  We made Kaiserschmarrn as planned.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there was a surprise!  It was snowing out!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/christmas\/IMG_0856.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/christmas\/IMG_0856_small.JPG\" alt=\"Snowing\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/christmas\/IMG_0857.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/christmas\/IMG_0857_small.JPG\" alt=\"Snowing\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently mother nature was just toying with us last night, but decided to go full force this morning. No complaints here.  A Christmas isn&#8217;t a Christmas without a coating of snow!<\/p>\n<p>We set to work on the Kaiserschmarrn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/christmas\/IMG_0858.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/christmas\/IMG_0858_small.JPG\" alt=\"Working\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I suppose you&#8217;re wondering what Kaiserschmarrn actually is.  Well, it&#8217;s essentially a gigantic pancake with less flour and raisins added that&#8217;s chopped up, coated with powdered sugar, and served with fruit sauce.  We used apple sauce for our &#8216;schmarrn.  Here&#8217;s 20 seconds of it cooking!<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/25nbkIQDJgs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/25nbkIQDJgs?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The finished product was quite tasty and left us very full!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/christmas\/IMG_0860.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/christmas\/IMG_0860_small.JPG\" alt=\"Kaiserschmarrn\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With full bellies we returned to the room.  By that time we were kind of tired again, so Joni took a big 3 hour nap.  Once she recovered from her snooze, we watched an episode of MythBusters, then just vegged out.\u00a0 Then we got a hold of Joni&#8217;s parents on Skype.\u00a0 It was nice to hear about their Christmas.\u00a0 It&#8217;s now super late and Joni&#8217;s playing Xbox.  I&#8217;m doing this post and &#8220;working&#8221; on some other posts to come.  Of course in the IT industry, &#8220;working&#8221; looks a lot like sitting.  Maybe that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m doing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of our late goings on last night, we weren&#8217;t exactly early risers this morning. I think I was up at 9 or so and Mary Jo was awake and wandering about at 10:30. We did a little Internet browsing to get ourselves fully awake. 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