Other activities...

And the other activities...

Took a walk through Commonwealth Ave, the Public Gardens and Downtown Crossing on Dec. 4th in between the fairs...found a monument dedicated to the people of Boston that died in Sept. 11th... enjoyed the quiet time to myself, it was a beautiful day...and the gardens were all yellow and blue. Fall colors...different from the time I walked through the exact same route in spring (you can scroll down to see the photo I put up in spring for the difference) ... Downtown Crossing was all decked up for Christmas with a lit Christmas tree. Filene's Christmas scenes were up and very intricately done...

Food-wise, JL organized a Thanksgiving dinner with the grad people...We started cooking from 11am and didn't stop until 5pm, after which we went over to the grad housing where the dinner was held and continued cooking until 6 plus... and there was so much food! Two turkeys! We did sweet potato casserole (which turned out to be deliciously sweet), baked yam, jiao zi, and two kinds of pasta (the creamy mushroom one was amazingly good too). And that's only half of what was served...there was about 30 plus people (and I actually met a sec. sch friend, talk about 6 degrees). Was extremely tired at the end of it all, being on your feet for the entire day cooking does that to you...

Also went to Ocean Wealth for Ruijie's birthday, and had a very scrumptious lobster dinner (I like it more than legal's!). There was about 10-12 of us, kinda of a mass dinner...

Both occasions reminded me of the times we had such mass dinners/lunches in Beijing, usually you never do know half the people...just people in foreign countries gathering together for celebrations...but they are fond memories...

In other news, I finished the scrapbook on the Europe trip (which brings a very great sense of satisfaction) and I'm not going to talk about my books, that'll take up way too much time! But I did enjoy Rule of Four and Five People you Meet in Heaven, two very different books and good in their own ways...