Predcasne vanoce 10. - 11. 12. 2011

It is becoming a tradition that I celebrate Christmas a little bit earlier. The reason is that I usually travel over the Christmas break, this year I am off to Costa Rica. The advantage of this early celebration is that I don't have to deal with crowds in stores to buy food for my dinner. As a Czech tradition we had fried carp and potato salad, for desert we have Czech Christmas cookies, this year I made 11 kinds! It is not also totally Czech dinner anymore, since Daniela and Martin married non Czech/Slovak people we introducing our tradition to people from Ecuador and Japan :)
I wanted celebrate Christmas with my non Czech friends also, so the second day I invited other friends for small Christmas party.
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Uz je tradici, ze slavim vanoce o neco drive. Duvodem je me cestovani pres vanocni prazdniny, tento rok jedu do Costa Riky. Vyhodou brzkeho slaveni je ze nemusim bojovat s davy v obchodech. Jako tradicne jsme meli k veceri smazeneho kapra a bramborovy salat, jako zakusek bylo vanocni cukrovi, tento rok jsem udelala 11 druhu! A uz nemame ani uplne ceskou veceri, jelikoz Daniela a Martin si vzali "cizince", ukazujeme tak nasi tradici i lidem z Eqvadoru a Japonska :)
Chtela jsem take oslavit vanoce s mymi neceskymi kamarady a tak jsem na druhy den udelala malou vanocni party.
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Thanksgiving 24. - 26. 12. 2011

I think this was after a few years first Thanksgiving that I stayed at home. This holiday doesn't really have any meaning to me since I wasn't born in USA and since this is family holiday and all my family is in Europe. This year after busy summer and October traveling I stayed in San Jose. I prepared with my friend Christina non traditional Thanksgiving dinner and celebrated this holiday with a few friends.
On Saturday we drove to Bear Valley for one day for short snowshoeing and to visit my friend Katka and her family.
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Myslim, ze toto bylo prvni Dikuvzdani po nekolika letech, co jsem zustala doma a nikam nevyrazila. Tyto svatky nemaji pro mne vpodstate zadny vyznam, jelikoz jsem se v USA nenarodila a hlavne moje cela rodina zije v Evrope. Tento rok po velkem cestovani v lete a rijnu jsem proto zustala v San Jose. Pripravila jsem s kamaradkou Christinou netradicni veceri na dikuvzdani a oslavila jsem svatky s nekolika kamarady.
V sobotu jsme pak jeli do Bear Valley na sneznice a navstivit kamaradku Katku a jeji rodinu.
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