During the day we prepared our contribution to the Christmas Pot Luck at the clubhouse tomorrow. The park provides coffee, water, juice, a ham, potatoes and other trimmings, everyone who attends brings their favourite dish and whatever they wish to drink (other than the above mentioned beverages) nothing better and we usually overeat which is a tradition at Christmas eh! After dinner there will be carol singing and a gift exchange, everyone who wishes to participate in the gift exchange brings a wrapped gift for the exchange, then we pick a card from the deck of cards, the activity director at the park then picks a card from another deck and when you card is called you can pick a gift from under the tree or steal someone else’s gift. The gifts can only change hands twice as otherwise the gift exchange could go on all night. The whole evening is a lot of fun, especially the gift exchange, there are always the favourite gifts and the comedy type gifts, and we love it!
In the evening we attended our friend’s (Jane and Dennis from Ontario) Christmas Eve Buffet along with other friends Mike and Lenore from Wisconsin and Mike and Jen from Ontario. The buffet and company were awesome, we had a wonderful evening and we could not have wished for a better Christmas Eve. Jane baked a Tourtiere Meat Pie which is a tradition for their family and is a traditional Quebec dish which many Ontario residents have adopted.
The girls, Lenore, Jane, Patsy and Jen!
The buffet was complete with a delicious French bread, veggies and of course dessert. Before the buffet we were treated to snacks and home baked Christmas cookies along with some adult beverages.
Dennis and Mike
Mike and Mike, Mike on the left is Jen's husband and Mike on the right is Lenore's husband, just so you don't think I made a mistake eh!
Thank you Jane and Dennis for inviting us and hosting a wonderful evening.
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