Honeymoon gift

E and D gave me these coffee chocolate macadamia nuts on Christmas (they might have out them in my stocking?) but I was so busy I didn't get a good chance to look at them until days later when I was straightening up and noticed that they're from Hawaii. They picked them out for me (and Andy, I suppose) when they were on their honeymoon. Aw! They leave today to fly back home.

I also took a closer look at this horse from D's parents. It has Ecuador-25 written on it. What a cool remembrance of their wedding year. And, so far, it's been on our mantel and safe from the cats.

New Year’s Eve

As we did to ring in 2025, we did the same to ring in 2026. It was dinner with the golf buddies and the golf widows. We were expecting a group of 12 but three couples had at least one person who was sick. There's something going around. We went to Maya Del Sol for dinner.

They had a prix fixe menu for ala carte or $82 a person so, as a couple, we got two appetizers, two drinks, two entrees and one dessert. I usually don't have an appetizer or dessert when we go out but we splurged. It's only New Year's Eve once a year, right? For the appetizer, we shared the tamales and nachos. No, we didn't finish the nachos.

We could have stopped eating after the appetizer, but the filet and mashed potatoes were amazing, especially the sangria reduction.

We certainly could have done without dessert but we had a few bites of this cookie with ice cream.

For the "after party" we went to our friends C and M's house to ring in the New Year. It was nice having the smaller group because we could all participate in the same conversation, and as the hostess said, there was seating for everyone!

Cheers to 2026. We not only stayed up for the celebration in New York, but Chicago too and talked until 1:15 a.m. We haven't stayed up that late in a long time lol.

Group selfie taken shortly after midnight.