Getting Ready for Christmas

Christmas trees, both real and artificial, are expensive here. So, the other night we decorated the potted plant our friends the Swartzes gave us for our housewarming.

Luckily we had a power adapter, or we wouldn't have been able to use our American Christmas lights. To be honest, our Xmas plant looks a little funny, but hey, at least it's something!

On Christmas Day, we're going to our friends' house, so I started baking some of the goodies we'll take over: applesauce and cinnamon muffins and lemon yogurt cake.

I think they turned out okay, despite the fact that the oven in our rental apartment is a little wonky, and I had to think in grams/Celsius!