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So Christmas at Niko’s was fun. Christmas in Germany is two days besides Christmas Eve, no one really knows why, but ohwell… We ate duck and rabbit… it is good we didn’t stay longer because we may have made our way to other animals I have had as pets and that wouldn’t be fun… The duck was ok, I didn’t really like the rabbit… I probably won’t have either again…

I have finished two books while here. Dean Koontz’s The Darkest Evening of the Year and Laura Weiss’s Such a Pretty Girl. The new Koontz book was awesome. Here is one of my favorite quotes from it (Rachel you have to read it!!):

Dogs’ lives are short, too short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you’re going to lose a dog, and there’s going to be great anguish, so you live fully in the moment with her, never fail to share her joy or delight in her innocene, because you can’t support the illusion that a dog can be your lifelong companion. There’s such beauty in the hard honesty of that, in accepting and giving love while always aware it comes with an unbearable price. Maybe loving dogs is a way we do peance for all other illusions we allow ourselves and for the mistakes we make because of those illusions.

And finally… pictures of some of our shenanigans are available at Jason’s flickr.