Not yet chilled to the bone, we had a wonderful Christmas morning, sans Christmas music, classic Christmas movies and electricity to charge our new gadgets (Amazon Kindle for me - thanks Jimmy - and digital camera for my mom)! Though we remained hopeful all day, we finally conceded at about 4:30pm that we better plan to not have power all night, so we built a great fire, gathered lanterns and candles and headed out to probably the only restaurant open on Christmas day - Hunan, the local Chinese restaurant. We felt like the family from A Christmas Story resorting to Chinese as our plan B Christmas day meal. Games and libations by the fireplace got us through the rest of the evening. Surprisingly, it was actually really fun and festive!
Saturday we got up, still no power at our house, but the local outlet mall had been restored so we dragged Jimmy along to hang in the car while us girls shopped. The positive energy proved effective because when we returned to the house, the Christmas tree was twinkling, the TV was blaring, clocks were flickering - we were back in business! My mom and I quickly pulled together her belated Christmas Day meal, Beef Wellington, which we enjoyed in the company of my dad and grandparents. What a wonderful two Christmases we had in Boone!
Per the usual, we feel so spoiled and loved by both our families! We're finally home now, relaxing and getting ready for reality again.
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