Holiday rush
Dec. 12th, 2001 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamlingWow, this week is going so fast by me, and I haven't even recorded last weekend.
Friday we participated in a family Christmas tradition. We went to the Madison Christmas Celebration, at Lake City Church. It was amazing, and wonderful, like it is every year. I took Sarah, and she was surprised, like I am every year, at the animals, the real live Camels, the donkey, the fireworks, and the cute kiddy bell choir. They were dressed like little snow angels (fuzzy cotton outfits and little wings), and ringing colored bells. The lady directing them had colored cards that she showed them, when their color came up, they'd ring their bells.
There was one little angel on the end that would jump up and down, shaking his little yellow bells, and quickly stopping and pulling the bells in when the card would go away. All the other angels would just ring their bells, some shyly, some with more enthusiasm, but no one beat the little angel on the end, in fact, by the end of their song, the second angel in, also with yellow bells was jumping up and down with the angel on the end. I was laughing so hard, I couldn't breathe. They were soo cute. There was also ballet dancing, swing dancing, large choirs, and a pageant of Christmas, but told from the viewpoint of the 3 kings.
Kinda sad though, this is the last time they are going to have such a huge Christmas production, it's our tradition to go, don't know what we are going to do next year.
Afterwards, we all headed out to Pizza Hut, my parents, Sarah, my brother and his friend Sara, and 2 other families. (Carlo also joined us there) After dinner we persuaded Sarah to play more Xbox with us.
Saturday, another Christmas tradition, the fam, and Carlo, went to Tate's Tree farm for my parents Christmas Tree. It's always so funny to watch my brother and Carlo stomping through the trees creaking jokes and being cracking, annoying my mom who's got the video camera. 'You ruined my video' My brother cut the tree down all by himself, the first time we haven't had Dad do it. It was a bit odd to be getting the tree with no snow on the ground, but fun as always.
Saturday night was my company holiday party. I didn't think I'd have a good time, and it was really hard trying to get Carlo to remember that he needed to come too. But, we had a great time! I still don't know many of the people who were there, but we sat at a table with Heidi and Jason(who used to be my boss), and the engineering guys and their dates. One of them likes to Autocross his Mrx, and he and Carlo and Jason talked about racing and cars a bit. It was pleasant dinner company.
After the dinner they had rented a casino for us! We all got 1500$ worth of chips and were given chances to make much more from that with games like blackjack, and craps and roulette. I'd never played roulette before, and it was surprisingly easy and fun, the chips were only worth 5 dollars, so you could play for a long time without losing too much at a time. I lost so much at blackjack, while Carlo did so well he was betting 500$ at a time, while I had gone down to 5$ chips. Anyway, it was a really good time, and at the end of the night, every 1500 worth of chips gained us a raffle ticket. I ended up with 3, while Carlo had 6 or 7. We didn't win anything, but it was really a good time.
Sunday (full weekend), the Packers won over the Bears(yah!) and we had some of Carlo's friends from a Grand Turismo game bulletin board. They had brought their Ps2's but we mostly played Xbox. (their choice, really, we had to strong arm them into showing us Grand Theft Auto 3) More playing after dinner at Chili's, they played till past midnight, though I had gone to bed, exhausted, and happy around 10.
A full, and happy weekend.
Friday we participated in a family Christmas tradition. We went to the Madison Christmas Celebration, at Lake City Church. It was amazing, and wonderful, like it is every year. I took Sarah, and she was surprised, like I am every year, at the animals, the real live Camels, the donkey, the fireworks, and the cute kiddy bell choir. They were dressed like little snow angels (fuzzy cotton outfits and little wings), and ringing colored bells. The lady directing them had colored cards that she showed them, when their color came up, they'd ring their bells.
There was one little angel on the end that would jump up and down, shaking his little yellow bells, and quickly stopping and pulling the bells in when the card would go away. All the other angels would just ring their bells, some shyly, some with more enthusiasm, but no one beat the little angel on the end, in fact, by the end of their song, the second angel in, also with yellow bells was jumping up and down with the angel on the end. I was laughing so hard, I couldn't breathe. They were soo cute. There was also ballet dancing, swing dancing, large choirs, and a pageant of Christmas, but told from the viewpoint of the 3 kings.
Kinda sad though, this is the last time they are going to have such a huge Christmas production, it's our tradition to go, don't know what we are going to do next year.
Afterwards, we all headed out to Pizza Hut, my parents, Sarah, my brother and his friend Sara, and 2 other families. (Carlo also joined us there) After dinner we persuaded Sarah to play more Xbox with us.
Saturday, another Christmas tradition, the fam, and Carlo, went to Tate's Tree farm for my parents Christmas Tree. It's always so funny to watch my brother and Carlo stomping through the trees creaking jokes and being cracking, annoying my mom who's got the video camera. 'You ruined my video' My brother cut the tree down all by himself, the first time we haven't had Dad do it. It was a bit odd to be getting the tree with no snow on the ground, but fun as always.
Saturday night was my company holiday party. I didn't think I'd have a good time, and it was really hard trying to get Carlo to remember that he needed to come too. But, we had a great time! I still don't know many of the people who were there, but we sat at a table with Heidi and Jason(who used to be my boss), and the engineering guys and their dates. One of them likes to Autocross his Mrx, and he and Carlo and Jason talked about racing and cars a bit. It was pleasant dinner company.
After the dinner they had rented a casino for us! We all got 1500$ worth of chips and were given chances to make much more from that with games like blackjack, and craps and roulette. I'd never played roulette before, and it was surprisingly easy and fun, the chips were only worth 5 dollars, so you could play for a long time without losing too much at a time. I lost so much at blackjack, while Carlo did so well he was betting 500$ at a time, while I had gone down to 5$ chips. Anyway, it was a really good time, and at the end of the night, every 1500 worth of chips gained us a raffle ticket. I ended up with 3, while Carlo had 6 or 7. We didn't win anything, but it was really a good time.
Sunday (full weekend), the Packers won over the Bears(yah!) and we had some of Carlo's friends from a Grand Turismo game bulletin board. They had brought their Ps2's but we mostly played Xbox. (their choice, really, we had to strong arm them into showing us Grand Theft Auto 3) More playing after dinner at Chili's, they played till past midnight, though I had gone to bed, exhausted, and happy around 10.
A full, and happy weekend.
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