Letter 10: sho-booties and Aly's first Scottish snow

So, from the pictures, we have Alyson and Baxter in front of the apartment. Then we also have Alyson and Baxter in the car park on Baxter's evening outing to take care of "business". This is officially Alyson's first Scottish snow. It appears that we're on course to have a white Christmas, although it's still late November. I doubt that this batch of snow will last more than a few days. I would be surprised if we didn't have more between now and December 25th though. As I'm sure Alyson has mentioned, our snow storms are less dramatic, and it's only a couple of inches max out there just now. The most I have seen is a foot I think. Anyway, it was exciting, especially for Alyson who is now almost hyper-ventilating just at the thought of Christmas being so soon. We are almost finished our Christmas shopping, which is a good thing since I start finals in a week and a half. We're looking forward to seeing you all in less than a month now.

The last picture here is especially for Jessica's benefit. I wasn't even allowed to take a picture of her other new pair since she's looking forward to showing those off personally in 4 weeks time. Yes, that's right, 4 weeks time until we arrive. I hope you're prepared for "But David can't sleep in my room...! He's a boy! Boys smell!" etc.. And Brody should probably be wearing padding for the kind of attention he'll be getting from her.

Our recent movies have included "RED" which was quite good. A relatively laid back comedy punctuated by mild action scenes. It was an interesting plot. I saw "The Social Network" a couple of weeks ago, and it was quite fascinating. It is, of course, about the rise of Facebook and all that entails. The part that really caught my attention was where they recreate a scene where the co-founder says to Mark Zuckerberg (or whatever his name is) "I just spoke to a girl, and she said she'd facebook me"(or something to that effect). At this moment they realise that facebook is now a household name; a noun, adjective, and verb all at the same time. It is quite interesting to think that I use that in regular day-to-day speech, but never would have done so 5 years ago.

On a last movie note, the big blockbuster of the month has of course been HP7. Harry Potter mania has descended upon the Adam household. I have finally caved, and we are reading the books together. I had already seen all the previous movies, but its interesting to read them now to catch up. The 1st part of the Deathly Hallows is definitely worth watching, but I had SO many questions afterwards. Alyson has placed an embargo on me knowing too much before I read the 7th book. I am now half way through the 5th book, but this may have to take a bit of a back seat until I get exams out of the way. Luckily I have several long flights in the very near future which will require reading material. We were both very enthused to see HP7 though, and have already seen it twice (thank you unlimited cinema cards).