Our celebrations began on Thursday, December 23 as we travelled down to Columbia to visit with my parents and brother. We spent the afternoon celebrating my dad's birthday, but then loaded up in the car to begin our Christmas celebration by looking at spectacular Christmas lights in nearby neighborhoods.
We awoke on Christmas Eve and celebrated Christmas with my family, just like it was Christmas Day. A BIG breakfast (which included pancakes in the shape of Mickey Mouse's face) and a few presents. We then reverted back to our Christmas Eve traditions and packed up to head out to my grandmother's home in Blackville. There we were able to visit and celebrate with more family, eat our traditional Christmas Eve's spaghetti dinner, and watch Carly run circles around the house.
Unfortunately, our visit in Blackville was very short. We packed up again that afternoon to head down to Seabrook Island to begin our Christmas celebrations with Dave's family. During our visit we managed to spend a lot of quality time with family, take a trip into Charleston, walk the dogs on the beach, and spread out our Christmas gift opening for 3 days. (Apparently that is what happens when there are 3 children under the age of 3 celebrating together, maybe next Christmas we will synchronize their naps a little better.)
Our family had a FABULOUS Christmas vacation and are very grateful to have so many family members to celebrate with during the Christmas season; however, we are also very thankful to be home safe and sound tonight and ready to sleep in our own beds.
Overall Christmas Statistics:
Trip Length - 7 days, 6 nights
Cities Visited - Columbia, Blackville, Seabrook Island/John's Island, Charleston, Mt. Pleasant
# of Family Members Visited: 22 + 1 dog
Dave has posted many of the pictures from our big adventure on our photo website. Click here to view these photos.
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