So after our adventure in Whitefish we returned to Ralston for 3 days to enjoy Christmas at home. Chris popped into Med Hat on the 23rd Dec to buy all the vegetables and trimmings ready for Christmas Day and a few last minute christmas purchases. Christmas Eve we allwent out for drinks & supper at Stuart and Zoe's in the village and managed to sing a few carols around a real fire, although I did sing very badly! Then it was home for some frantic christmas present wrapping before leaving the obigatory mince pie, cookie, carrot and milk for Father Christmas.
25 Dec - Tegan and Fraser kindly woke up just after 7am then it was downstairs for bucks fizz and the opening of all the presents left by Father Christmas - it is a wonderous thing listening to the excitement and gasps of young children when Father Christmas has been and left so many presents. Once all the presents were open and Tegan and Fraser were happily playing with everything, although with the odd cry of 'please build this' we rang friends and family in the UK. Even Jinx had a present kindly sent from Tonia & Les, it didn't take her long to tear the paper off to find a selection of bones - yum.
It was then time to get dresse
d and go round to Sam & Andy's for lunch, as they had the largest house they had kindly agreed to host us all, along with Sam & John and all our children. There were 13 of us sitting down to lunch and with all the food that we had, another 3 families could have easily eaten. We ate like kings and drank lots of fizz and soon had tummies like the rolly pollys!! During the afternoon more friends joined us for drinks and games. By 9.30pm we were all finished and it was time for home - Boxing Day we were all driving up to Canmore to start Rec Ski on the Monday.
The 3 magnificant christmas day cooks - well done, the rest of us were pot washers or drink filler-upers!!
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