merry christmas

k+ a: hello friends. merry christmas!

k: until last night, we were in jewish/muslim countries for a while ...

k: the nile, as seen from our hotel's rooftop pool/bar/cafe. it was about 75 degrees outside, sunny every day.









k: ann's favorite activity: menu browsing


k: I, of course, went for a swim.

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a: we said good bye to sunbathing and hello to frigid berlin weather. it was actually kind of nice to have it cold for xmas eve when we arrived.

k: yeah, I'm not so in love with the whole cold-weather-for-christmas thing, but it's nice to be back in berlin. the middle eastern part of the trip was interesting and fun and weird and nice and upsetting and revelatory and surprising, etc (more on that to come) and now Berlin seems like home or something. there's christmas music. women aren't wearing veils. the water's safe to drink. that kind of stuff. very nice.

a: this is me posing with the nice 40 cent christmas lights we bought at the sort of dollar store in cairo



k: our attempt at a bad christmas post card shot


k: here's the view from our 10th floor "wintergarten" bed. I almost want to move here.

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a: more catch up pictures to come (jerusalem/cairo/luxor). we are in berlin till jan 11 so we expect to try to get some work done. I will talk more about the great place we have...and it has a drawing/studio/writing room with two desks - awesome!

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a + k: merry christmas!