Previous few years have been brunch at the church in Sherwood Park, but Dec 26th is a Sunday, so I expect the building will be unavailable that morning (or we're going to have to ramp it up a notch on the volume of food we provide!).
I would offer to host a party at our place, but the travel time makes that relatively impractical -- and there are no options for tobogganing within several hundred miles (wakeboarding we could do).
Option 1: play outdoors somewhere and meet at a home or restaurant for visiting & eating
Option 2: go see a show (ie: White Christmas at Festival place) together and visit after/before
Please make more suggestions. We are planning on skiing, so leaving this get together on Dec 26 works well for us, but we have some flexibility if other dates need to be considered.
Hopefully we'll see you all in Dec!
2 comments:
Jim and Beth are available on the 26th and 27th. Why don't we stick with the 26th as this has always worked well, and shift to the afternoon instead of the morning. That way, those that are involved in church will be able to attend as well. It would also allow those that wanted a sleep in on Boxing Day (or those who wanted to scour the stores early in the morning) to do those things. We could do appies and baking instead of brunch food. Probably the church would be available in the afternoon if we wanted to use that venue again, and could maybe do some outdoor activities there (fox and geese?)
Jill,
I received your email and am glad to hear that you and your family will be in town this Christmas. It will be nice to connect again.
Steve and I would like to offer to host the get together at our house on December 26. We are flexible as to time and events, but near our house we have a tobogganing hill and some skating rinks. As well, if the weather cooperates, it is possible that we could clear the ice on our lake and skate there. We did this many years ago and then had a bonfire -- we would have even more fun if we did it now because Tristan and Kieran are now able to skate (in fact they both skate better than I do!!!)
However, I do not know how to post on the blog, so if this is appealing to you, would you be able to check with others at to their interest?
If this works, we could do a late pot luck brunch again (11:30) with skating/tobagganing/visiting afterwards. Or, if everyone is in favour of a show, we can meet at our house before or after.
Let me know what you think.
Michelle
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