A Busy Week Before Christmas 2004

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We didn't get our tree until the Tuesday before Christmas - the last day the tree farm in Bourbonnais was open (and we were the only ones there that morning...)

Jared had some ideas		And so did Hanna

Hanna with the cheery shirt		Try not to touch the spiky needles		Decorating down low

All together now		Frank wrapping

Excursion to the Christkindlmarkt Downtown

Hanna, Frank, and Andrea had some time before Jared's performance at the Auditorium Theatre on the 22nd, so we went to the market in Daley Plaza and got some good last-day buys on chocolate and mustard.

At the Gluehwein tent		Hot chocolate for Hanna

 

One of the many food opportunities		The big tree in Daley Plaza

 

Jared's Choir

The Whitney Young Concert Choir, which Jared joined this fall, performed in the lobby of the Auditorium Theatre before and during the intermission of the Joffrey Ballet's performance of The Nutcracker.  They also sang during one of the numbers.  Sorry about the grainy pictures - it was pretty low light.

 

Hamming it up before they perform		Can you spot Jared?

A better-lit shot of Jared in his tux		Jared played a dancing Santa for one of the choir numbers