December 22 & 23, 2010

Wednesday 22~~~~Kent went to Portland and I spent the day wrapping Christmas presents and doing laundry. Our friends Lou and Kathy who we worked with at Fisherman's Bend last summer are in town today, shopping and going to the Mission Mills Christmas light showing this evening. We made plans with them to go out for dinner when they were done at the Mill. We went to Applebees and we had a lot of fun catching up on each others time since we were last together. They have stayed at the park all winter, I don't think Kent could do that, he would get cabin fever real fast with nothing to do. They really enjoyed the beautiful Christmas lights and seeing all the activities at the Mill. Kathy said they took a couple hundred pictures or more. We are going out there tomorrow night with Tress and the kids, we have never done that before and it should be fun. Thursday 23~~~~Tress and the kids came over for dinner before we went to Mission Mill . The weather couldn't have been better for walking around to view the workers doing the work of the lives many years ago and going through the old houses they toured us through. Bodie had fun using one of the weaving looms they had for people to try weaving. They also had a blacksmith making things from his forge that drew a big crowd. We went to our house for dessert before Tress and the kids had to go home. Tress had some Christmas presents to get wrapped after the kids went to bed. I remember those days having raised 5 children. LOL Tomorrow is Christmas Eve and I still have things to do. My family cut down a lot on our exchanging this year, so thinking I didn't have much to do, I did nothing until this last week, plus I have Kent's presents to wrap which I don't mind doing, as he does so much for me. I have really enjoyed the real spirit of Christmas this year more than I ever have.