Blacksburg Christmas run up

It snowed of the first time (well proper snow instead of flurries) last week. 

Snowy!

There were flowers here the other day

Abandoned bikes.

Towards the Drill field.

Oops.

Walk up to my office 

Unfortunately for most it snowed over Thanksgiving so some travel plans were in trouble. I stayed in Blacksburg and cooked lunch at mine with Steve (slightly non-traditional but hey, I'm English and I was cooking!). The American tradition of marshmallows (and brown sugar) on sweet potato mash is just nasty! And I found I am not a fan of pumpkin pie.

Our Thanksgiving dinner...                                 

Our table!

With accompanying wine (brought back form Australia this summer).

On the afternoon I went to Lara and James' house which was fun. Unfortunately I forgot to take many photos. And when I got home I was ill and spent a few hours being sick in the bathroom. So the rest of the evening was less than pleasant!

I did decided to put my Christmas tree up. I am looking forward to putting the one up at home with mom. It's our tradition and I really missed it last year. (I spent some time sorted out the documents I need to go home - I am so excited.)
Anyway my Christmas tree looks good.

My tree.

star

:-)

Dining room

Happy memories and Christmas 

This week, I went to my usual wine tasting, after a while away. It was great as we had the place to ourselves! It was just our crowd on one big table so the wine distributor pulled up a chair and it was really relaxed and fun!

My wine group, enjoying the wine and food.

And a handsome man helped me carry my bags to a friends car, which is extremely rare. So a very nice night!
I have my stash ready for the weekend party. Though I think I went a little over the top! Thankfully I have a lot of friends who will willingly sacrifice and help me deal with this "problem".

My OTT stash!