My cross-country tour came to a screeching halt as I now head back to Waterloo to prepare for the trip to Taiwan. It's pretty sad, but it had to be done. And there are so many obstacles ahead of me, including getting an expired passport renewed, which apparently requires a proof of registration from the university, which is hard to get now since the university is closed. Anyway, God willing, it can be done.

That was a pretty jam-packed Christmas Eve, I think. There's this trip to another person's house where he had two little children who played with me while the others went to practice for the night's candlelight service. Boy are those two active ones...still pretty fun, though. Troubleshooting the guy's computer wasn't. Anyway, then there's this rush to change the plane tickets and then go to church for the service. It was short, so ok. There was a nice dinner afterwards (surprisingly something's actually open on Christmas Eve). After that, supposedly there was going to be carol singing at two places, but I went with Simon's van, and he got lost. We missed the first location, and after running around, we get into the pastor's car and went to the second location, and by the time we got to the second location, they were done. So yeah, we missed both. But squeezing with Simon and Tony in the back of the pastor's car was fun, though. Visited one final location with the nice display, and came home, skidding along the way. But not for long, as we headed out once more to get some shots of the night scene from "the bridge"... And now I'm back, and it's Christmas Day, so Merry Christmas to you, whoever you are!

Here's what hit me about the carol Silent Night tonight: the line "Sleep in heavenly peace." So appropriate for my grandfather, eh?