Troutmaster

Belated Merry Christmas!

My Christmas started out by waking up and going downstairs to help my mom work on making Christmas dinner. We got a 20 lb turkey and our calculations for how long it would take to cook came out to 5.5 - 6 hours which was a bit more than my mom had originally expected (which eventually impacted the time that we ate). We also had prime rib and other traditional Christmas fare (stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, homemade cranberry sauce, etc...). My mom even whipped up her traditional apple pie, which has to be the best pie ever. I even make it myself sometimes at home in California but I rarely share it. :-) After helping out in the kitchen for a little while Timber and I took the dogs for a walk around Baxter Bog. It snowed all day (we got roughly 6 inches of snow) and Iris, my parents' corgi, loves having snow kicked up on her. So our 40 minute walk around the bog turned into 1 hour. Luckily we didn't run into any moose, but we did see lots of other people and dogs on the trail. When we got back to the house it was time to open presents with the family. After that we got cleaned up and had dinner. Everything was very good. After dinner was over some family members had to go, and the rest of us relaxed and let our food digest. Overall it was a very nice Christmas and I've really enjoyed being up in Alaska for Christmas this year.

Posted by troutm8 at December 27, 2007 02:09 AM