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Christmas in Death Valley

Somehow, the Cho family's Christmas tradition is to travel. Last year it was Mexico, on a spa resort, eating delicious roadside tamales and doing yoga on the beach.

This time, we went to Death Valley - an ironic way to celebrate the birth of Jesus, but hey - at least we got the desert climate right. There's so much arid, prehistoric beauty there. The vastness of the rocks, mountains and the sky just overwhelms you and makes you realise just how small a piece of the whole thing you are.

                             Dante's Peak, overlooking Badwater

                                    

                                  (click here for more pictures)

Lost Luggage, Lost Mascara

                            

                                    

                              Delta has lost my luggage.

And they've confiscated my mascara at the check-in, on my way back from Nantucket.

Clearly, the terrorists have won this war. What kind of world do we live in that an overprivileged eastern/western hybrid girl can't carry her overpriced horse-mane extract mascara in her carry-on?

And on top of that, I had to check-in my longchamp carry-on full of lotions and potions. It's lost. And even if it's found, it's inevitably damaged.

(It can't possible be because I'm spoiled)

Ipso factum:

Terrorists, you suck.