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     On Wednesday we had our now-normal breakfast of bread and condiments before walking around town.  There was a store that sold Christmas decorations, and we got a Charlie Brown-esque tree as well as some tinsel and a candle.
     My mother wasn't feeeling so well so when we got home we had lunch and she slept.  In the evening we went to the movie store Musimundo, and found a couple of movies we will watch.  One we started today and is called the Big Fish and is quite weird, and the other is the Matrix. 
     In the afternoon we skyped my grandparents and I skyped a couple of my friends.
    Yesterday in the morning my father and I walked to the artisans market and did a little holiday shopping, then when we came back my parents went to the travel agency to schedule tickets to Buenos Aires, and I skyped another friend.
    At 8.00 we went to see the Hobbit, and were given assigned seats.  The women selling them acted like the theatre was packed and she was only finding some small pockets of three-seats-in-a-row, but when we walked in there were two other groups of people.  Later it filled up more.
    When we got out of the movie at 11 a little dazed from the persistent violence after they left Rivendell, the mall was a lot more packed then when we went in--we had to fight our way through crowds. 
     After the movie we turned on some Christmas music on Youtube and decorated our tree.  It really cheered up the apartment.
     This morning my mother slept until 10.00, a first.  We walked down to the panaderia to find that there wasonly a half a loaf of bread left, but it was enough breakfast.  Found some more music, and made cold sesame noodles.  
    We started watching the fish movie, then napped.  Tonight we are going out around 11 to walk around the square, and will possibly go to a midnight-mass.