CHAPTER THIRTEEN
San Francisco at Christmas time was an interesting and different experience for the girls. It wasn't a typical white Midwestern Christmas and it wasn't cold exactly, but it was much more grey than what any of them except Mai were used to. Peter, Mindy, and Marie-Jean did a great job making it feel like Christmas in Vanessa's apartment, going as far as to put up a tree and decorations, and even found a blowup Santa for the porch that almost obscured the entryway. They'd left the rental alone, due to the effort of decorating two places, as they'd been having the majority of meals with the girls at Vanessa's place anyway.
Christmas Day was spent opening small gifts and introducing Mai to their typical British-American holidays, with stockings and a Christmas brunch as well
