Christmas

So overall I would say we had an okay Christmas. But there were some events beyond our control which dampened the mood.

Anyway, here goes. For Christmas we got ourselves a TV...a surround system...and an XBox. Okay, basically Mike and Chris went to the future shop unsupervised and bought the whole store. Here are Unos and I enjoying "The Grinch" on the new TV.
Here I am beside our little tree with all the presents around it. Thanks everyone for everything!














Here is Mike opening a present on Christmas morning.

However our Christmas was interrupted to take a very sick Tala to the emergency veterinary hospital. She was vomiting and um...going to the batrhoom...every hour or so for a few days. She was waking us up 3 times a night and now she wasn't eating...anything...and things where red that shouldn't ever be red.
So here is Tala at the clinic. Three hours and $250 later, Christmas day resumed. I made Christmas dinner with a chicken instead of turkey (we like chicken better), stuffing, potatoes, carrots, gravy, cranberry sauce and Lindt chocolates for dessert.
After dinner I wanted to go for a walk to Stanley Part to see how bad the storm had affected the park. On our way we came across this piece of a building that had fallen off during one of the wind storms.







This next picture is of the seawall and the beach along which we walk to get to Stanley Park.

Here is an example of the carnage that is throughout the park. There are 3 huge trees where the roots had simply been ripped out of the ground from the force of the wind. The root base of these trees is about the size of a child's plastic wading pool.
It is going to take the parks department a long time to clean up the mess and this national landmark won't be the same for generations.



However, the ducks and the geese don't seem to care, they were swimming along in the lagoon feeding on bread crumbs.

Well that was our first Christmas away from NB and hopefully next year everyone will be well. See you in the New Year!