General Discussion & Chat: Best/Worse and What did I learn today-part 25, 1 by gillibean

gillibean wrote:
I'm still trying to catch up for being off the computer for a while. I can't believe I missed an entire thread. I figured that I better post now before I miss this one too.

Judy, thank you so much for your gift, it's beautiful. Sonora though it was really cool that one of my friends from DG sent it.

Ves, your card was very appreciated.

We celebrated our 10th anniversary on Dec 19. DH had booked time off work and planned a getaway for us to where we spent our honeymoon. He even arranged for friends of ours to look after the children (Ella included). It was so nice to get away for a couple of days, even though it meant a lot of driving. On the way home we went to a place that offers sleigh rides. The kids were so excited. On the last night before coming home we stayed at a motel and rented one of their jacuzzi suites. The kids had a blast in the jacuzzi. DH and I enjoyed it too after the kids were in bed. We almost didn't make it home for Christmas though. With the mild weather on the weekend the ice road was in really bad shape. None of the taxis were going across the river, just the skidoo taxis and only a couple were even running. Finally, after much anxious waiting one of the skidoo taxi drivers asked someone they knew who was going over in a truck if they would drive us over. Three hours after getting off the train we were finally at home. We were very grateful that a wonderful angel let us stay in her truck (instead of the cold wind) while we were waiting to get across the river. It made me glad that I'm the type of person to give someone a ride on a cold day or to try to help people.

We've been continuing to enjoy the holidays. We went to a friend's house for Christmas dinner (I'm so glad I didn't have to cook after our Christmas Eve ordeal). Then we had some friends over for some moose on boxing day.

Now, I can hardly believe it's the new year. I hope everyone here much happiness and success in the upcoming year. I feel fortunate to have you all as friends.

Gillian