Holiday wrap-up, plus some looking ahead

Wow, that was a great trip to Florida. We took tons of pictures, shot some video, collected sea shells, walked along the beach, swam, went down near-vertical slides, and overall had a great time. The hotel was very nice, and even though the Internet wasn’t great, I still managed to do all the usual things. We bought a little more in terms of groceries than we needed to, but we do that every time we have a kitchen on vacation. It was great to relax after a long first half of the school year, and to forget about most of my responsibilities from back home. As last Monday was the first night of Hanukkah, it was then that the gifting began. I received my most-wanted gift this holiday season: Canon’s SD790IS 10-megapixel digital camera. I even got a 4GB SD card to go with it. Needless to say, I broke it out immediately and began snapping shots. After we returned home, we continued the gift-giving and receiving. I also received a check from my grandmother, a Borders gift card fro