Christmas Vacation Begins

We left Santa Clarita right on time and arrived in Burbank at 5:20a.  Our 7a flight had a 6:30a boarding time, so we were in good shape.  Until we saw that McD’s was not open.  McD’s was closed Christmas day, or at least was opening late.  Denny’s was open and we got Moons Over My Hammy sandwiches for take out.

We arrived right on time in Portland after our very early flight.  Christmas dinner was slightly delayed when the Wasson clan (8 members) had some motion sickness on the trip from Olympia to Portland.  All in all, there were 19 people for Christmas dinner.  It was great fun.

Camille didn’t feel well the next morning, so we drove to Eagle Crest on our own.  This place is nice.  Toby gives this place 5 out of 5 stars for the layout of the condo.  She loves that the master suite is on the second floor (thus the fact that she is able to take long naps).

Sunday morning we woke up to a very light snow.  The kids were so excited for the snow.  Lucy made a snow angel and we had a mini snowball fight.  We met a nice family at the local playground who let us borrow their sleds.  The resort is on a golf course, so there are lots of little hills to sled down.

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Don and Camille arrived later Sunday afternoon.  We ordered pizza from Cibelli’s.  We thought that we would order 3 large pizzas for the 6 of us in order to have some leftovers for the rest of the week.  When I picked up the pizzas that Toby ordered, I was quite surprised at the size.  These were 24” pizzas.  I’ve never seen a 24” pizza before, and I carried out 3 of them.  Below is a picture of 1 of the boxes, with a piece of letter sized paper for reference.

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Yikes!  Each slice was a foot long.

We have a lot of pizza to eat this week.