I can't believe it's over

A quick look at the blogs I follow tells me that people are moving on from the holidays.

I feel like I'm in this little time warp, because just days after the ball dropped in Times Square, I found myself catching our boat, while underway for Corpus Christi and spending the next 3 days at sea, without internet or news.

I was still digesting my holiday meals as I climbed over the gunnel of the tug, and still haunted by the images of a Philadelphia New years Day tradition called, The Mummers Parade.

There is no way I can explain to you what the Mummers are about ( see Google ) but I can assure you, you have not seen anything like it, anywhere.

And you should be thankful.

It is the one thing about Philly that I am not proud of, but I've watched it every year since I was a kid.

It's like a car accident. You just have to take a look. I can't explain my reasoning or the parade.

So today I sit at a dock back in Corpus Christi Texas, 8 days after the Mummers stutted down Broad Street in Philadelphia, still feeling some holiday cheer, so here is my last holiday post.

I spent most of the holidays doing research.

I wanted to find out if watching people exercise on TV was at all beneficial to me physically.

So I honkered down on the couch and watched as many football games as a human can possibly watch in a 2 week period, while eating food prepared for me by various members of my family.

And the answer I came up with was, it definitely is not beneficial physically in any way,

but it is a heck of a lot of fun.

Here is just a ......taste.......of what I had to deal with.

Christmas diner

Portabella Napoleon

sauteed spinach

tomato base on a bed of potatoes.

The ever present

cheese board

Daughter Erin

makes home made pizza

It turns out

pizza making is a contact sport.

After some minor first aid

she was back at it.

My normal bowl of oatmeal

was pushed aside for the holidays

I hope everyone has a great 2012.