ashman
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- Jul 12, 2005
Chapter 6 The Hunt Begins!
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you had a great Christmas. As promised I will continue our trip report (currently in the pre-trip mode) with a description of the treasure hunt. First a few pieces of background info. Santa brings our girls three presents each year. He does this because Jesus got three gifts on his birthday. This year when the girls went to see Santa they told him they wanted a Doodle Bear. He asked what else did they want. My youngest said, You can pick something out for us, youre pretty good at that! Needless to say he was a bit surprised. So this year Santa brought the girls Doodle Bears, which they both asked for and were very excited about. They brought Sweet Child some Mickey Mouse ear rings and a Hello Kitty Thermos for MiniMe. He also brought both girls a mask, fin and snorkel set, which they didnt seem too excited about at the time. (They didnt know about the cruise yet!)
Second piece of helpful knowledge, as noted before, we travel to one set of grandparents for Christmas so we usually dont put out the family Christmas presents. Well this year we did to build the anticipation and boy did it build! The tag said that this present had to be opened last! We all opened our stocking gifts and the kids opened their Santa gifts. We then took a break from the holiday carnage to partake of breakfast to fuel our bodies and steel our nerves for the carnage yet to come. I am sitting at the breakfast table with my two precious daughters and the rest of the crew is just lolly gagging around. I announced in a semi-authoritative voice, I guess the girls and I are the only ones who will be opening gifts this morning! MiniMe then asked me in a very concerned voice, But dad, if we are the only ones who open gifts the other gifts wont get opened and we wont get to open our special last gift! She knew the rules and she didnt want the others holding her back!
Here is a picture of the girls after all other presents had been opened eagerly waiting for the go ahead signal!
The girls open the gift with frenzied excitement only to find a toaster box! I said Oh boy a toaster! Sweet child had a sad pathetic look on her face that said, This is it? I got all worked up for this? No dear Sweet Child but you are learning one critical Christmas truism Never trust the box! We encouraged her to open the box where the two girls found matching sets of Mickey Crocs!
We took the girls to a shoe store a few weeks ago to try on the crocs to get the right sizes. You should have seen the hurt when we didnt buy. Both girls had great attitudes and didnt complain but you could tell they really wanted the shoes. We drove by the same store last Saturday while we were going to take the girls to see Charlottes Web for a surprise. The girls asked, Are we getting the Mickey Shoes for our surprise! We told them no as we looked at each other with a knowing smile. Needless to say the shoes were a big enough hit that we could have stopped there but no! I have been planning for to long for that! Inside the box was the following clue:
Your gift from mom and dad is an adventure so put your Mickey Crocs and lets get going! Your first clue:
Our trip will have music and a show,
for your next clue go the piano!
Tune in to the next chapter for more clues and pictures!
Merry Christmas everyone! I hope you had a great Christmas. As promised I will continue our trip report (currently in the pre-trip mode) with a description of the treasure hunt. First a few pieces of background info. Santa brings our girls three presents each year. He does this because Jesus got three gifts on his birthday. This year when the girls went to see Santa they told him they wanted a Doodle Bear. He asked what else did they want. My youngest said, You can pick something out for us, youre pretty good at that! Needless to say he was a bit surprised. So this year Santa brought the girls Doodle Bears, which they both asked for and were very excited about. They brought Sweet Child some Mickey Mouse ear rings and a Hello Kitty Thermos for MiniMe. He also brought both girls a mask, fin and snorkel set, which they didnt seem too excited about at the time. (They didnt know about the cruise yet!)
Second piece of helpful knowledge, as noted before, we travel to one set of grandparents for Christmas so we usually dont put out the family Christmas presents. Well this year we did to build the anticipation and boy did it build! The tag said that this present had to be opened last! We all opened our stocking gifts and the kids opened their Santa gifts. We then took a break from the holiday carnage to partake of breakfast to fuel our bodies and steel our nerves for the carnage yet to come. I am sitting at the breakfast table with my two precious daughters and the rest of the crew is just lolly gagging around. I announced in a semi-authoritative voice, I guess the girls and I are the only ones who will be opening gifts this morning! MiniMe then asked me in a very concerned voice, But dad, if we are the only ones who open gifts the other gifts wont get opened and we wont get to open our special last gift! She knew the rules and she didnt want the others holding her back!
Here is a picture of the girls after all other presents had been opened eagerly waiting for the go ahead signal!
The girls open the gift with frenzied excitement only to find a toaster box! I said Oh boy a toaster! Sweet child had a sad pathetic look on her face that said, This is it? I got all worked up for this? No dear Sweet Child but you are learning one critical Christmas truism Never trust the box! We encouraged her to open the box where the two girls found matching sets of Mickey Crocs!
We took the girls to a shoe store a few weeks ago to try on the crocs to get the right sizes. You should have seen the hurt when we didnt buy. Both girls had great attitudes and didnt complain but you could tell they really wanted the shoes. We drove by the same store last Saturday while we were going to take the girls to see Charlottes Web for a surprise. The girls asked, Are we getting the Mickey Shoes for our surprise! We told them no as we looked at each other with a knowing smile. Needless to say the shoes were a big enough hit that we could have stopped there but no! I have been planning for to long for that! Inside the box was the following clue:
Your gift from mom and dad is an adventure so put your Mickey Crocs and lets get going! Your first clue:
Our trip will have music and a show,
for your next clue go the piano!
Tune in to the next chapter for more clues and pictures!