Merry Christmas to you as well!
Our family drove to Baltimore on Christmas Eve for a hillarious annual party. 6 families, most with kids of varying ages, get together to spread a little holiday cheer. Santa always makes a visit and brings many, many Christmas "treasures" with him. The gift giving rules are simple: You can't give anything nice, you can't spend a lot of money on anything and whatever you get you HAVE to take with you. This last one proves interesting when you receive, say, a trunk lid from a '95 Chevy Caprice police car or a 19th century floor safe that's missing its door. This year, amongst other things, I gave away two Engelbert Humperdinck records, an 80's-ish sweatshirt with a lovely sheep pattern on it and perhaps the ugliest coffee mug ever made. Total investment for me: $3.50.
On Christmas day we open presents whenever our 7 year old wakes up and then we head over to my in-laws for more excellent food and a few more gifts. This year I got a new set of prunners as I'm taking out a rather large overgrown section of my property by hand (I hate me, clearly). Santa may have also brought me Zelda: A Link Between Worlds which, if I may say, is absolutely fantastic! A must have for action RPG fans... not that there are any of those around here
Merry Christmas everyone!
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