December 21, 2006

Merry Christmas from our home to yours

As I write this letter, there are only a few days until Christmas. We wish you all a blessed Christmas filled with love and happiness. I’d say we wish you were all here with us, but we’d never all fit in the motorhome. In our hearts you are with us.

The temperatures here have been cooler than normal with north winds that make for ‘pants and long sleeves’ kind of weather. We’re not complaining though, we don’t have snow!

We’ve been pretty lazy these past weeks. We’ve done a lot of reading and have really gotten into those crazy Sudoku puzzles. They can really drive you crazy!

We’ve met a few couples that we’ve enjoyed visiting with. It’s amazing how small this world really is. We’re always meeting people who know people we know, or who are from down the street where we live now or used to live. We met a couple from Edmonton last Sunday who live just blocks away from where I grew up in Jasper Place. Their kids went to JP Comp High – next door to the school I went to. The one daughter, who is my age, now lives with her husband in Westbank - just down the road from where we stayed last year. We’re looking forward to meeting them – they’ll be in San Felipe in February.

I put up all my Christmas decorations last Sunday. We have a small tree (artificial of course) and I’ve got lights and garland across the front. It looks good, but it does seem weird with palm trees and ocean as a backdrop.

We caught the last episode of Survivor last Sunday. We went to Fandangos, the little bar up the street. We were the only ones in the bar and they would have normally closed at 8 on Sunday, but stayed open so we could watch. We were both pulling for Ozzie, but Yul is a good second.

Christmas Eve there’s a non-denominational candle light service at the Mission church, and we’re going to go. On Christmas Day, Fandangos hosts a “pot luck” supper and many of the snowbirds flock down there for good food and good company. We’ve been told that it’s a great time, so we’ll likely try that out. They are also ‘puttin on the ritz’ for New Years Eve. So we do have some plans. We’ll keep you posted.