Wednesday, December 25 — Christmas!

As usual these days, the kids are not eager to get up. But eventually, we did the usual Christmas stockings and present opening.

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Simba was with us to open presents
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Robin and Allie made our traditional Christmas Morning Lifesaver brunch dish. Scott made his more Japanese by having it with a glass of sake and orange juice.

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We headed back to Precce, a gourmet grocery shop, to buy ingredients for Christmas dinner.

So many interesting things like more different tofus than I’ve ever seen for sale.
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Expensive fruit and veg.
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Strawberries about $12.50 for 11 berries.
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Delicious looking prepared sushi for about $10.

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Alcoholic drinks. We didn’t know what this was, so bought it since it was less than $3.00.

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Turned out to be sake, or Nihonshu (the Japanese term), in an plastic go cup.
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The vegetables here are expensive partly because they’re packaged instead of available in bulk.

I bagged the cucumbers but everything else was packaged and cleaned.

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Two sirloin steaks instead of turkey for Christmas. We can have turkey next year but we don’t think we’ll see Wagyu beef like this in Calgary.

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Finally unwrapped.

Christmas dinner:

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FF2595D7-EA5B-43C4-8611-E0CCEBD514EASteak, mashed potatoes, gravy, salad, wine, sake, scotch and some awful stuff Robin brought from a North Korean shop in the DMZ. The Wagyu beef was incredibly rich, almost like eating foie gras or beef marrow. Just a little was filling. The five of us couldn’t finish two steaks, and if you see how much Robin usually eats, that’s surprising.

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