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I’m not a big Christmas person. Perhaps the whole non-theist thing has something to do with it. That being said, I love having my Christmas tree up. It brings back happy memories from my childhood and I get to pull out all the ornaments that I have gotten over the years.
Since I was a kid I have gotten an ornament from my parents and Grandparents every year. My Grandparents used to do a ton of traveling, so I have some very interesting ones from all over the world. And my mother just has impeccable taste. Additionally, my wife and I have started to buy an ornament from every place we travel too. Its fun and makes the tree full of memories. This week as we lead up to Christmas, I’m going to post pictures of some of these ornaments. Here is volume one!

From London

From Seattle (both the globe and the Space Needle blurred in the background).

Very cool and surprisingly heavy fish.

One of my best friends was in London for the fall semester doing a law study abroad program. While he was there, he picked me up some tea from Fortnum & Mason.