2015-12-25
【Aiden in English】
It's another Christmas. I'm not particularly excited about this year. Once again, I didn't get anything new. There were no presents under the Christmas tree, no stockings full of stuff. It was just a four-day trip to Maryland from my home in Pennsylvania. Leaving at eleven-thirty in the morning, arriving at my mom's friend's house would take around three hours. We stayed at their house over Christmas, as the hostess, Qiuping, had become Mom's closest girlfriend more than thirty years ago. The adventure began far before we even arrived, though. On the road to Maryland, many scenic pictures appear, and they evoked Mom yelling at me to take a picture. In one specific picture, we were crossing the bridge, and I was tempted to leave the camera in the back of my car seat if we didn't catch up with the traffic. Both sides of the bridge had fogged up to a point where it seemed we were above the clouds. Knowing my mom's excellent, professional driving skills, I gave her the camera and hoped we wouldn't plummet to our deaths as she took one hand off the wheel to grab the camera. Since I'm writing this, you can infer I'm still alive. We arrived at our destination reasonably early, around one-thirty. Mom was ecstatic about meeting her old friends, and I was the main topic for a while, mainly because I was so skinny. I suppose getting a fever had its benefits. Not that it's worth getting one, but you know, the weight loss is admirable. At their new, spotless house, Qiuping and her husband, Li, were quite happy and made us an enormous dinner. It looked good with poached chicken, roasted lamb chops, sautéed shrimp, baked Salmon, boiled dSalmontc. The chicken was peeled into strips of the same size and thickness as the noodles. That infused it with flavor, but it wasn't as good as the shrimp, which tasted phenomenal. Salmon, which I usually despise, tasted surprisingly clean. It usually seemed like someone was rubbing Salmon in the dish; the flavor of the soil was not there today. Their son Ning also came home to help us with the feast and brought his girlfriend, Jessica. Together, the seven of us finished around a third of the food. Please talk about the leftovers we would have. There was even more than Thanksgiving. Christmas, which usually isn't that big in our home, was welcomed in Mom's friends' household. It was fun and giving, as I got my first Christmas presents in three years. As to all of you, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 【紅霞譯】
另一個聖誕節來了，今年我沒啥好激動的，仍舊兩手空空，既非指望聖誕樹下擺放禮物，又不奢求聖誕襪里裝滿驚喜，除了計劃從賓夕法尼亞“山林”州寒舍驅車前往馬里蘭“心愛”州度假四天外，別無其它可言。
上午11：30我們出發，前後大約需要三個小時才能抵達媽媽的朋友家，女主人秋萍阿姨早在卅多年前就是媽媽的閨蜜，正因如此，我們老少三代打算與他們一家相聚共度聖誕節日。冒險之路始於輪下。在通往馬里蘭的途中，許多優勝美景疾速朝我們撲來，樂得媽媽大呼小叫，趕忙招呼我遞上相機，當時我們恰逢穿越大橋，要不是遇上塞車，我真想把相機留在車座後面。此刻大橋兩旁水氣蒸騰雲霧飄渺，叫我們這些匆匆過客頓生飄飄欲仙遊身世外之感。我深知媽媽車技二百五堪稱撼世奇葩，但願她手握相機之時胸懷全局，否則一旦不慎滑落，她一手扶方向盤，一手奮力搶救相機，到頭來恐怕難保身家性命。
根據上述我所描述的場景，你足以推斷本人毫毛未損安然無恙。下午1：30我們終於抵達目的地，從時間上來說還算較快。一見到老朋友，媽媽欣喜若狂，彼此簡短聊了一會我如何瘦身神速，讓我領悟到發燒的益處，當然誰都犯不上靠這種方式減肥，但歸根結底瘦比胖好。主人家新房一塵不染，秋萍阿姨及其夫婿力兒叔叔十分開心，並為我們準備了豐盛晚餐，白切雞、烤羊排、紅燒蝦、烘鮭魚、鹵全鴨等應有盡有。燒好的雞肉再被撕成條狀，其粗細大小跟麵條差不多，表面澆上調料，雖然看上去不及大蝦誘人，但吃起來口感叫絕。我平日極少沾鮭魚的邊，總覺得有一股土腥味，但今天嘗過之後方知何謂純正，絕對沒有丁點怪味。主人家崟公子偕同女朋友傑西卡回家赴宴，七位親朋好友濟濟一堂，海吃山喝勉強幹掉三分之一珍饌佳餚，可以想象我們到底剩下了多少飯菜食物，準保叫感恩節自嘆弗如。 一般情況下，我家難得烹飪如此精美的聖誕大餐，媽媽的朋友不遺餘力盛情款待了我們，使整個節日充滿歡悅與嚮往，三年來我頭一次重新收到聖誕厚禮，至此順便問候天下所有同胞，聖誕快樂新年幸福！
Christmas Day in History(歷史上的聖誕節)：
2014: A Christmas Day @ Longwood Gardens, PA(賓州杜邦花園過聖誕)
2013: Christmas over Indian Ocean(印度洋上過聖誕節) 2012: Christmas @ Sea, Chile(智利遊輪上過聖誕) 2010: 節日禮物(Holiday Gifts) 2009: 新西蘭基督城(Christchurch, NZ)  Christmas Traffic on I-95 (95號州際公路聖誕節擁堵)
 Christmas Dinner (聖誕晚宴 12-26-2015)
 腐竹山藥枸杞雞湯、紅燒豆腐皮蛋、炒上海小油菜、香菜白斬雞胸脯絲
 五香醬鴨、烤羊排、烤羊排、上海紅燒雞
 烤鮭魚、紅燒蝦仁、香腸炒韭黃、羅漢齋
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