Lots of things I did from Christmas to New Year's!!!!!

My Christmas! I went to Sheki a place far from Baku. What I did in Sheki!! We ( my family ) stayed in a hotel called Karvansari on the silk road. It was very cold. My Mom had 16 blankets piled on her. The bricks were not in place and the only thing that was warming us up was the fire. We went to 4 museums. Two of them were art museums and 2 of them were history museums. When we were walking to it our hotel person was guiding us and showing us were stuff was. Our driver Telman then started a snowball fight and threw a snowball at my mom. Then my mom threw a snowball back and then me and my brother threw snowballs at Telman our driver. Then we went to a Khan's palace. There was "shebakae" stained glass and it was hotter in the Khan's palace then in the hotel that we stayed in. There was a taxi driver we hired for about 3 hours. He brought us up to Kish but there was too much ice. We went to a Christian church that has been turned into a museum right now. It had bones of people and animals and different kind of pottery. It was beautiful but still very cold. Then we went back to the hotel and we got our stuff and that was what we did in Sheki.

Our Christmas gifts!!! We got 4 Christmas gifts; one for me, one for Jonathon, one for my Mom and one for Dad. We all got pajamas and robes. Me and my brother got candy dispensers. On the top there was a dog and a cat with a button on their head. When you pressed it it did a song. The dogs song was a lower song and the cats was a higher song. At the very end of the song the cat meows 4 times and the dog barks 3 times. When it sings the songs it's feet move and it walks. We also got a gravity defier that can do tricks like you can make it a round circle and you can crawl through it. You can make it look like it's walking a dog. You can make it do lots of other things but those are some of the easier things. We got a present that was bracelets/necklaces. There were 2 pairs of them. One was darker and one was lighter of the pairs. One said Jesus is my life in Russian and one said Jesus in Russian and Jesus in English and had a Christian symbol fish. We also got stuffed animals for Christmas. I got three games and my brother got 1 game. My brother also got a big pack of football cards. I would say 4 or 5 inches long. Just as much football cards as baseball cards.

When we got back from Kish we sang Christmas carols, We sang Christmas carols and played them on a piano we have. I know how to play piano. I played "Jingle Bells" and a harder "Jingle Bells". My Mom played all of the songs and then Jonathon played "O Christmas Tree" and "We wish you a Merry Christmas".

New Years Eve!!!! The Azeri's had Christmas today and they don't exactly celebrate New Years's that is when they celebrate Christmas and open presents and light fireworks and firecrackers, too.