Friday, December 31, 2010

Christmas Vacation

What better time and place to re-cap Christmas break than the Anchorage airport at 2:30 in the morning?!  And what better way to do it than through a series of pictures?!


This was on the bathroom door at the Aurora Inn in Nome.  They got the period at the end, but it still makes no sense. 




I'm pretty sure the cookie dough isn't supposed to do that.  But turning the mixer on high seemed like a good idea at the time.


It was requested that we not bake as many cookies as we did last year, so we were forced to restrain ourselves.  All the cookies fit on the plates, except one.  (Those are just the gluten-free cookies.  We also made fudge and non-gluten-free cookies.)


Gingerbread houses have become somewhat of a tradition around our house at Christmas.



Watching It's a Wonderful Life after church on Christmas Eve, Vicki was all smiles after Travis showed up.  Travis wasn't going to be able to make it home for Christmas and Vicki was devastated.  So, I arranged and paid for Travis to fly home, but we "forgot" to tell Vicki.  Operation Christmas Surprise: success!




Santa apparently has a flame-retardant suit (or so we hope), because we got a bit cold on Christmas Eve, and a fire in the wood stove was the result. 


Our matching pajama pants have also become a tradition for Vicki and I.



 Various family members on Christmas Day.  The highlight was probably making Mom cry with the new mixer to replace the falling-apart one that she was settling for. 


Apparently, I'm really bad at this game.  After two hours of playing, this was all I had.  The winner of the game accumulated at least 10 more cards than I did.  All I managed to accumulate was an interesting set of attributes (that I sincerely hope does not describe me, as some say.)


The break was too short, as it always is.  I'm heading back to the village before New Year's, which I've never done before.  It should be an interesting experience. :-)

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