Christmas Activity Pictures

Christmas Break has been filled with many fun and relaxing activities.  I have enjoyed being back in the beautiful Bulkley Valley.  It has also been a pleasure to be able to reconnect with friends through a variety of activities.  Here are a few pictures from the last couple of days for just a glimpse of what I have been doing.

Here is a picture of Christmas cookie decorating from earlier this week.  Dad, Janine, and I decorated the cookies together.

Yesterday morning the sun was shining nicely on the fresh snow on the ski hill.  The entire mountain was beautiful, but I had the clearest view of the ski hill for a picture without leaving home.

Later in the morning, I got together for 'coffee' with a couple of my good friends, Renee and Natasha, from high school.  Although none of us actually drank coffee, we enjoyed a variety of tea.  It was so nice to be able to catch up with each other and what is going on in our lives.

After supper was the annual girls alumni volleyball.  The senior girls had their team, and there were enough alumni to make 3 teams.  We played games to 20 points.  Our team started out by losing a couple of games, and then as we played the last team, we pulled off a win.  Then we continued with a tournament style crossover for semi-finals and finals.  We won our semi-final set and even came back to win the finals.  Above is our team picture after our victory in the finals.

After the alumni games, the Reitsmas came over for goodies and games.  We had 11 people and played cards and then telephone pictionary (aka fax machine).  It was a great end to a fun day.

This afternoon, I went out to the Reitsma's to go sledding with Renee.  Our first run on the toboggan was the best run I ever had there - we made it farther than I have ever been, and we had to bail before we went down into the gully and to the creek.  The packed snowmobile tracks made it hard to steer, so we fishtailed a lot and turned back and forth despite our efforts to go straight.  It was good exercise, but so much fun!