nik in the desert: November

The weather has stayed absolutely gorgeous here, making November seem very surreal. I've started wearing some gloves for my morning ride to school. The days are still absolutely gorgeous, especially if it's sunny out.

For Thanksgiving, we went to our friend Andy's grandparents' house in Sun City. Andy is an old high school friend of Curt's who now lives in L.A. He took the MegaBus down here (pretty cheap fare) and spent time with his family and then with us. It was fun hanging out with someone else's family but I did miss mine...

Speaking of which, everyone seems to be talking about Christmas and plans. We will be driving from AZ to MN. We're leaving on the 21st, soon after school is done for the day. We'll be arriving in MN late on the 22nd. The week will go pretty quickly as we have both sides of Curt's family to see, my family, and as many friends as possible.

I'm going to stop before I get too far ahead of myself. My time at school is now mostly being spent rehearsing students for the Winter Program on December 20th. This is the first concert I'm doing so I'm excited and nervous at the same time. The theme is "Tracking Santa"; we're going to follow him all over the world and have songs from several different countries. I think the most overambitious one I'm doing is "O Tannenbaum" - the 5th graders are learning one verse in German. I think it's good for them. :) I'll let you all know how the show turns out.

I'll post some pictures now. We've been to South Mountain twice this month (on the very southern edge of Phoenix). I also got some pictures of the condo (finally). Last but not least, we took Andy to a restaurant called Tradiciones. If you visit us, we will take you to Tradiciones. We've taken (or tried to take) everyone there that has visited us so far. We've had a lot of visitors already! Sky, Meagan, Audra and Andy have all been here. :)

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch.
Nicole