I didn't think I could start thinking of this place as anything but an unlucky bump along the already rocky road that is my life, but...

Even if I don't know why we're here, or when we'll get to leave, if we do at all, I've met some wonderful people, found friends I'd thought were lost for good, and...

Well, this is a Christmas I'll remember.

It's a little alarming to think there's someone out there somehow able to bring in food that no one else has seen or heard about, but I can't really complain all that much.

...All the mistletoe around though. I know I was threatening to put some up, but this wasn't me, Chris.