Company Holiday Party from December, 2011

I forgot to post about our company Holiday party because we left for Australia right afterwards. The food and entertainment was very Russian! There was pickled cow tongue in gel and cow tongue shredded salad to name a few. We had to ask what everything was. Then the entertainment started and wow, I felt like it was a bachelor party. This was a specialty dancing group from Moscow and the ladies would come out for each dance with clothes on and then before you know it, almost all the clothes would come off! The costumes and dancing were terrific, just way too much skin for a business function. The pictures don't do it justice, but have to include some.

Second ski trip to Niseko, Japan

We returned to Niseko in early March to ski again. We had another fantastic trip and Alyssa did a terrific job in ski school and progressed well. She loves to ski!

Our hotel had an indoor swimming pool, so that was a big treat. Alyssa got to snow ski and swim on her birthday! We enjoyed delicious foods and beautiful scenery.

Birthday Tea Party

We celebrated Alyssa's 7th birthday with a fancy Tea party! All the girls came dressed in fancy dresses and we made fancy hats, fans and necklaces. We made our own pinata and it was a big "hit"! The girls played limbo and freeze dance and ate fun little tea sandwiches and snacks. I made a tea pot cake which was fun.