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We just got back from celebrating The Feast of the Three Kings/Wisemen at our friend’s Pili and Carri’s house.  Pili’s mother, Pilar, is from Spain, and their family celebrates this every year.  It’s really their Christmas when the major gifts are exchanged.  If you do the gifts on another day like Solstice, or Christmas, then you give three gifts a piece to at least the children on this day.  Technically the feast is on January sixth, but most people celebrate it the Sunday before.  And yes, this feast is also Epiphany.  It was our first year to celebrate The Feast of the Three Kings, with Pili and all her family. Jon’s parents were there, as well, and Trinity, so it was the last big family event of this season.  A good time was had by all.  There was one small problem for me, the dinner is mostly shell fish, and I’m very allergic to it.  So Pili fixed sperate dishes for Jon and I.  While everybody else was cracking crap legs and eating shrimp, we had salmon and tilapia.  The tilapia had this wonderful vegetable sauce on it.  She also fixed us green beans and salad separately, and root veggies.  They were all wonderful, and the fact that she had to fix it all separately let’s you know how much shell fish is in almost every dish for this holiday.  Trinity got to finally see their lovely home, and meet all their dogs.  They are some of the few people we know with more dogs than we have, though they only have four, as once did we.  But three of their dogs are big dogs, and it just seems like more.  Their dogs are all lovely and well behaved, though their tallest dog, a big, beautiful, German Shepard, did do her best imitation of a table-shark.  That long nose would come up over the table, and there were calls of Kia, no.  But what dog could resist all that food?  We finally broke down and ate more desert than at any other celebration this season.  It is the last one, after all.  This is it, officially we have survived the holidays.  I described it in an e-mail to a friend, as the most glorious stress of the year.  Now, it is behind us, and we can get back into some sort of routine.  Yea!