Well here it is Christmas Day evening and we are well fed and contented! It was a gorgeous sunny day today, in the mid 70's. Certainly didn't feel like a BC Christmas! We have been so busy these past few days. Last night we had a Christmas Eve party at the park hall. It was so much fun! We all brought appetizers and desserts and I have never seen so much good food in all my life! We also had a gift exchange and I don't think I have laughed so hard in a long time. Doug and I have never experienced a gift exchange like this. When we came into the hall, we had to leave our gifts on a big table and then after we were all well fed, we went up and picked up a gift (not one we brought) and brought it back to our table. Our park activity coordinator Karen, then read a Christmas story and every time she said the word left or right, we had to pass our gift in that direction and get a new gift passed to us. This went on for about 10 minutes and what a hoot! Finally at the end of the story, you kept the gift that ended up in front of you. What an excellent way to do it. I think we burned half the calories we ate with all our laughing. Now the really funny part: the party started at 5:30pm and we were one of the last ones to leave and it was only 8pm! I must say: these people do go to bed early!!
This Christmas morning the ladies and myself did water aerobics as "Santa Babies"
4 Canadians and 2 Americans - the water was lovely
We are the best - we decided we had better exercise to burn off the calories from Christmas Eve so we were ready to eat again at 1pm today when we were having our Christmas dinner. The park supplied the hams and turkeys and we all brought the trimmings. The tables were groaning again. There were still 4 turkeys and 2 hams they didn't need to carve so we are all getting together for the Canadian "Boxing Day" for left overs. Heaven help us, we will really need to exercise tomorrow!!
Everyone getting settled prior to eating Christmas dinner
Sharon is sitting facing the camera in the middle row
Patiently waiting for the wonderful food!
Well that's all the news from Arizona....Doug and I are heading out for our evening walk to look at the stars and listen to the coyotes. We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with friends, family and good food.
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