Christmas Eve

As it turns out, Santa Claus lives about 2 blocks form here. No, really! Last night I went to pick up Samuel at the ski hill, and saw a few white tail deer, and then tonight, at a family party, Santa brought presents for the little children of a local family. We were there to see it, and here is the proof.

Later in the evening, we were invited to another party where the main attraction was also the Jolly Old Man, this time magically turned in to a huge chocolate statue by a renowned chocolatier. So we cut off his bottom and had him for the fondue party.

Bailey, Samuel and Joseph laugh about a joke about the treats

The table is set, and the fondue is ready. There was fresh fruit, and pretzels, and a few fingers. We even tried dragon fruit. It was the most interesting thing most of us had seen, and quite tasty too.

After hyping up all the young ones on chocolate, we had skipping races, wheel barrow races, horse back rides, tickle contests, and almost every other form of revelry you can imagine. We also played a few board games, including two different cranium games, and good old dominoes and "Go Fish."

In this cranium game called Whoonu (who knew) you had to choose things you thought the "it" person would like best. The "it" would then assign points on a good better best scale, and the next round would start. There were lots of laughs as we all tried to convince people why our idea was the best one and deserved top honors.

As you can see, it was allot of fun trying to convince people how much they liked your chosen idea for them.

More hyping up the children, which quickly degenerated into a wrestling match. Guess who won.

Dominoes on this end, more cranium on the other end of the kitchen table, and laughter all around.

Where there are little girls, there will be head bands and hair-do's. We all got our fair share of the attention.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a Good Night.