Merry Christmas! Today, we celebrate the birth of someone special born on this day. You know I’m referring to Kevin St. Clair. Wish him a happy birthday and give him a beer if you get the chance to see him.
Last night, Desiree and I attended a
Christmas Eve gathering at a dear friend’s house. While there, Desiree joined
in a chaotic gift exchange game. For the first round, you shake passing pairs
of dice and are allowed to take a wrapped gift from the heap stretched across
the table each time you toss two of a kind. Once all the gifts are gone, each
person opens their gifts and places them back on the table. In a second round
that lasts for five minutes, the players are allowed to steal a gift from
someone else each time they roll two of a kind.
In the end, the table is filled with
socks, hats, bottles of this and that, and all manner of trinkets. This sort of
game is very much in line with typical Filipino party activities, and Desiree
had a marvelous time, as did I simply watching.
Once more, Merry Christmas!
—Mitchell Hegman
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