Arizona, Mesa - Thursday, December 25, 2014 - Christmas Day

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and took time today to remember the reason for the season.

We checked in with all the grandkids by phone or facetime today.  It appears Santa was very generous this year.  We knew they were all wonderful kids (no prejudice here), but we had no idea they were all that good J.  The social media available today does make it a little easier for us fulltimers who are away from home for the holidays.

We came to Arizona for the supposed warm winters with no rain.  Seems this year is an exception, we have had several days of rain and right now the temperature is only getting into the 60’s during the day and right now they say it will be in the mid 30’s at night for a couple of nights.  Got to admit that is better than Indiana, but not quite what we were expecting here.  All the locals say wait just a couple more weeks and “winter” will be over here.

We celebrated a candlelight Christmas dinner in style here at the Jones’s rolling estate.

Grilled lobster tails with roasted garlic butter and lemon

Baked potatoes with butter, sour cream and green onions

Spinach and mushroom salad with bacon and homemade celery seed dressing

Rolls and Ballatori sparkling wine

 

 

The lemons were a gift from one of our neighbors, fresh from the tree.  What a difference from the ones you buy in the store!  They smell wonderful and the juice just flowed from it when I cut it.