The Holiday Season of 2020

 With COVID raging as anticipated, we proceeded with a slightly altered season of holiday festivities this year.  While there were no traditional holiday parties, everyone adjusted and everything turned out fine.  We still got really cute holiday school crafts out of first grade!  We kicked it all off by spending Thanksgiving in Canandaigua with G-ma and G-pa this year.  We followed tradition and went to Corning the next day to get our Christmas tree.  And then, for the next 3 weeks, we did A LOT of online shopping.  We all agreed that we didn't quite feel the usual holiday spirit partially because we didn't go into any stores or restaurants with lots of holiday decor.  

Moving on to Christmas, we spent Christmas Eve Day in Canandaigua exchanging gifts and eating ravioli.  We proceeded to Corning for the evening and Christmas morning where we again, indulged in eating and gifting.  In a new twist to our holiday plans, we left from Corning to drive to Florida.  

Out trip to the sunshine state was the result of Luke being invited to play on his club lacrosse team's national team.  We chose to drive as a way to stay as safe as possible from Covid.  We split the drive down there over 2.5 days and quite honestly, it wasn't bad!  The kids used their devices and slept most of the way.  We enjoyed 10 days in the sun doing mostly outdoor activities.  We went to lacrosse games, played mini golf, swam in the pool, played on the playground, played Top Golf, went to Disney World (a 12 hour day that clocked 10 miles of walking),  and watched more lacrosse games.  Luke's team won their first tournament and only lost one game of the 2nd tournament.  We didn't see any gators but we did see a psychotic wild turkey that tormented the traffic (multiple days) on the street to our hotel.

We had a wonderful time but I will admit that spending 10 days away is a long time...and feels even longer in1 hotel room with 5 people.  We missed our kitties, our own beds, and even skiing.  We mad the trek back in 2 days and that was about as much as we could take.

We're so glad we made the trip and we're also happy to be home.  The kids have been enjoying the discovery of their Christmas presents for a 2nd time.  One of these days we'll get fully unpacked and the laundry will get caught up...