Merry Christmas
"Buon Natale"
(bwone nah-tah-lay)

Ramiro and I wish all of our family and friends a very Merry Christmas. The holidays are a difficult time to be so far away, but we know that our assignment here will fly by...it already is! Please remember that we have a private guest sweet upstairs that's just waiting to accommodate YOU!

Our plan was to stay up last night and call as many people as we could. Needless to say, I couldn't make it past midnight, which would have been somewhere between 4pm-6pm for most of you. The time change is a bit of a challenge, but I'm going to try to continue my calls throughout the weekend...hopefully I'll catch you at home. :)

The coolest thing about our Christmas yesterday was the snow. The mountains are typically snow-capped this time of year, but Aviano and the surrounding towns rarely see snowfall. Well, last night about 8pm the white stuff started falling...soooo beautiful. There's nothing like snow on Christmas...makes you feel like a kid inside! Here's a few pics I took this morning.