Sunday, December 28, 2008

Christmas At The Cabin

Day 1 - Wednesday, December 24th
  • Have breakfast with my parents, pack the car, drive up to Lake Tahoe
  • Stop in El Dorado Hills to go to the bathroom @ Target and eat lunch @ Taco Bell
  • Drive up Highway 50 and witness roughly 100 cars stopping their cars in the slow lane to put chains on
  • Arrive at the cabin
  • Get started on our puzzle
  • Eat Mexican food for dinner
  • Head over to the main cabin for the Nativity story
  • Return to our cabin and go to bed

Day 2 - Thursday, December 25th
  • Christmas!
  • Talk to Brett on the phone
  • Open presents
  • Eat breakfast burrito with leftovers from the night before
  • Power goes out
  • Go over to the main cabin again to exchange gifts
  • Head into town for Christmas Dinner since power was still out
  • Watch "Bedtime Stories"
  • Drive blindly (due to the frozen windshield) back to the cabin
  • Electricity is back on
  • Go to bed

Day 3 - Friday, December 26th
  • Eat breakfast
  • Go into town for after Christmas sales
  • Eat lunch @ McDonalds - run into patients from the office I work for
  • Browse shoes & clothes & shoes & clothes
  • Head over to KMart
  • Drive back to the cabin
  • Eat what was supposed to be our Christmas dinner at main cabin
  • Play white elephant game
  • Head back to our cabin and play games
  • Go to bed
Day 4 - Saturday, December 27th
  • Eat breakfast
  • Finish puzzle
  • Go into town
  • Browse more shoes & clothes
  • Come back to cabin
  • Take a nap
  • Go to main cabin for dinner
  • Head back to cabin
  • Start packing
  • Go to bed
Day 5 - Sunday, December 28th
  • Eat breakfast
  • Pack up room
  • Clean cabin
  • Go home

2 comments:

Washington Family said...

Wow! What a fun vacation! I was going to ask, "Why didn't we get together with you guys while you were so close?"? But with all the things you were doing each day, I can see why. Jess was working anyway. What a great Christmas!!!

Alex McMurray said...

You weren't keeping track of the time or anything while you were gone, were you?