Here is our official Christmas picture-taken in our hotel lobby. For those of you who receive our annual Christmas card, you know this picture won't make the cut. Nice, none the less...
Then we headed to the Marriot where we had a private room reserved for dinner. Before dinner, we, of course, took a ton of pictures. Here is one of the whole gang.
Then it was time for what has (like many traditions, I don't know quite how this one evolved) become a Christmas tradition: exchanging instant lottery cards. Everyone brings lottery cards from their home state, and we all spend a few minutes thinking we are about to be $20,000 richer. Unfortunately, nobody has ever won more than a few bucks which is paid out on the spot by the people who brought the ticket.
Aunt Ellen had brought an Etch A Sketch to occupy Timmy during dinner but it was Kerrie who entertained us all by producing very detailed drawings. If the whole education field doesn't work out for her, I am pretty sure she could make a few bucks...
It was a long night, and the excitment was too much for Jacob.
After a superb meal, we headed to the lobby bar to fortify ourselves before heading to the tables for a little holiday Roulette action (no luck there).
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Lotto card family tradition. I love it. Do you pass to the right? or draw names?
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