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hello from the expedition 50 crew we'd

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like to share with you today a little

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bit about what christmas means to us in

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this time of this time of year

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for me it's a lot about family we always

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travel typically to meet up with our

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family because we're dispersed all over

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the country

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we go home to georgia quite a bit or

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florida or sometimes colorado to meet up

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with all of our

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immediate and distant family members

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always a great time just to get together

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and share with each other

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this season is typically thought of as

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all about getting things around

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christmas but we in our family try to to

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think of it as the giving aspect um

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giving of our many talents and of our

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resources and of our time to others less

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fortunate

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it's also a season uh that i love i just

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love kind of the christmas season and

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all the lights and the music and

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everything that kind of leads up to it

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and my family i think shares the same

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thing

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i'll now pass off to peggy whitson

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hi well i think being on board the iss

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gives us a a slightly different

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perspective of christmas obviously

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friends and family are important to all

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of us

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uh but besides uh

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funny hats

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there is another very important aspect

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of being on iss and that's seeing the

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planet as a whole

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and it actually reinforces i think that

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the fact that we should

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live

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and i can only second what what's been

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said before i remember growing up i was

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uh i was born in a very big family i had

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25 cousins and

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for most of them the only time

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we could catch up was around christmas

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time so i was very much looking forward

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to that uh this year i won't be able to

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be there of course but i'll uh i'll

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thicken i'll think of them i'll try to

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give them a call

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catch up as much as i can and make the

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most of this opportunity to look at the

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earth uh reflect about what christmas

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means uh to us as individuals to to the

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world in general and and i think we'll

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uh we'll have a we'll have a good time

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on board the iss and share a christmas

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meal together

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thanks tomon speaking of a meal we'd

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like to share with you some of the items

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we're going to have up here for

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tamar has some special european food

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i'll let him show you that and talk

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so i'm lucky enough to have recipes

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that's been that have been prepared for

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me by french chefs and they're all based

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on ingredients that i used to to love

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when i was a kid that my grandmother

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used to cook

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for the big family dinners that we had

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around christmas time so

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as a maine i'll have a chicken supreme

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uh with morals which is a delicacy

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that we'll share together and have

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enough not just one can but enough for

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everybody in the crew

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as dessert we have gingerbread

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which is also a special special one that

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i remember from way back when that's

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going to make me travel down memory lane

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and i hope you guys will like it

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and as a starter because we don't do

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things in the in order on the iss we'll

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have uh ox tong which is also typical of

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the region i was uh i was born in the

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region i'm from and i hope everybody's

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and to go along we'll have some

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beverages i've got some um

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packaged uh cider

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and um cocoa hot cocoa is one of my

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favorites especially growing up in iowa

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and for some of the traditional us meals

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we're going to have turkey

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it comes in a pouch up here but we'll

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have turkey for us to eat along with

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fruit salad

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and what else do we have i know we've

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got some green beans and potatoes and

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some mashed potatoes

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which are coming out they're dehydrated

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and some cornbread stuffing

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and we have plenty of desserts to go

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along with these things as well we have

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cran apple dessert which is like a

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cobbler

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as well as some chocolate cake

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so we're going to eat very well up here

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at christmas

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and of course we're all going to miss

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our family members and wish we could be

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with them but we're going to have a

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great time up here and like tomas said

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earlier we're going to reflect on what

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this whole season means to us and our

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families so from the expedition 50 crew