Christmas in Des Moines, Day 5ive

It was minus two degrees this morning and right now, it's not much better. The AccuStan Eye Witness Weather I-Pod says it's 12 degrees at the moment. It is threatening to snow as well. Good thing we don't really have anywhere to go or be rather than right here.

We have returned from a jaunt downtown where we had lunch at the Noodle Zoo and then went to a bunch of local shops. 
among them, a restaurant called Zombie Burger.

We would walk as far as we could until our faces started top freeze and then we would duck in to a shop, mostly to get warm.

It is much later in the evening now and amazingly, the temperature is 24. We went to a Christmas Eve service that Neil plays at. It was in one of those mega church places where they really put on a show but it doesn't feel terribly holy. I am not complaining or putting the church down. It is simply not my kind of service.

After that, we returned home and went to a party at one of the neighbors house. We stayed for the appropriate amount of food and drink to comsume and then returned here for a loooong winters nap.

We played a card game called baseball and then it was off to bed in anticipation of a visit from the Jolly Old Elf.