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After a fairly typical Thanksgiving (fighting with my sister, food, procrastinating on homework) I'm back at school and not looking forward to this last week of classes.  However, it's after Thanksgiving so I am now officially in the Christmas spirit.  I started listening to Christmas music the day after Thanksgiving and I have yet to stop (I have 1.42 gigs of Christmas music on my computer - I think it'll last me for the next month).

One of my family's Christmas traditions is to go downtown and just wander around.  Like the Pigs on Parade in the summer, there's a Nutcracker March during the holiday season which benefits Northwest Center.  We weren't able to find all the nutcrackers during our trip yesterday but below are the ones we did see.  (I'm planning on going back in a few weeks to try and find some more.)

(I apologize for the nutcrackers being slightly off center in the pictures.  My camera always takes a picture that's slightly off from what's in the viewer and I always forget to adjust it.  Oh, and that one nutcracker is being a chain door because the bus tunnel was closed.  I'll have to go down during the week sometime to get a better picture.)

While we're downtown during the holiday season, we also like to stop by the Sheraton Hotel and check out the gingerbread village they host every year (this benefits the Northwest chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation).  This year's theme was, I believe, Christmas around the world.  Or something like that - I was never able to figure out the exact theme.