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December

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December is always a busy month for us with both kids having their birthdays and the usual Christmas shenanigans. We celebrated Ben's 14th birthday on Monday, 2nd December with a dinner out at Red Lobster, a seafood restaurant that possibly had its heyday in the 90's but was a great meal nonetheless. Check out that seafood platter! We had to wait until Laura had finished at a gym competition (yes, you read that right, it was a miraculous recovery!) to have cake, which we did at home.   Gorgeous birthday boy <3 The following weekend Russ and I were invited by one of the British gents on course to eat, drink, and watch a fireworks display from their apartment overlooking the wharf, which is a very trendy location in DC (kind of like Southbank in Melbourne, but on a smaller scale). The most amazing sunset Walking along the wharf Yay, fireworks! Ben had his birthday sleepover the night of the 13th, which five friends staying over. They're all fantastic kids who ate a lot of ...
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November

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No sooner had October flicked over to November on the calendars than the Halloween decorations were down and the Thanksgiving and Christmas decorations were going up.  The kids had the day off of school on 1st November but Russ was business at usual. He had a 6am start at college for a day trip to Gettysburg in Pennsylvania  https://www.nps.gov/gett/index.htm Russ's trip to Gettysburg was all about studying the strategies used by the Union and the Confederates during the US Civil War. The US Civil War waged for 4 years during the period 12 April 1861 to 9 April 1865 in the Southern and Eastern United States, with naval battles in the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. It was the US's deadliest war with an estimated 750, 000 people killed. The Battle of Gettysburg was the largest and most deadly battle, with over 51,000 killed or wounded. The Gettysburg battle was also the last major Confederate sortie in the North and marks a turning point in the war, with the Union successfully...
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