While the lead-up to Christmas is my favorite time of year, my least favorite holiday is New Year's Eve. I am not a night person AT ALL and don't like all the pressure to plan an entire night of fun . . . and then stay up to execute it. Also, it's kind of a "back to real life" time, where we give up all the festivities of Christmas for the cold and miserable reality of JANUARY.
Of course, now that we have Eric, I have something to look forward to in January :) But New Year's is still not my favorite.
December 31, though, we did one of the activities we hadn't been able to fit in yet leading up to Christmas: a visit to Fort Langley.
Janae and Alaina love dressing up in old-fashioned clothes, so they took this opportunity to get into character and see what Christmas would have been like a hundred years ago or so.
We got to taste (and smell!) chestnuts roasting on an open fire.
We also tasted the "heritage hot chocolate," which was thick, bitter, and laced with chili powder (in other words . . . disgusting!).
We saw a fur trader's wedding, where Alaina and Janae volunteered to be guests, offering gifts like cranberries, buffalo hide, and wool blankets.
Then the kids just played and explored--practicing calligraphy, dressing up, doing a scavenger hunt, and just having fun.
We even got a family picture!
Then we came home and watched the snow fall, and fall, and fall--all night!
I have to confess that I actually went to bed at 10:00 when Eric fell asleep, but in the morning we woke up to this:
And so far, it's been a pretty happy and snowy new year.
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