MrBishop
Well-Known Member
Christmas stories
There’s usually one event that’s worth retelling every season. Sometimes they’re good stories, sometimes not. Get enough family together, add the pre-Christmas stress of shopping, food prep, travel etc…add alcohol cleverly disguised as eggnog and mix well..and enjoy the results. I’m lucky enough that my family gets along, and this year, we had everyone (my bro-in-law’s not in Afghanistan this year).
Got any nice stories?
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Here’s mine.
Every year, the city where I live has an actual Santa Claus going around giving out gifts to the kiddies that come out to see him. Picture three pickups filled with wrapped toys, one of which also has a huge speaker system belting out Christmas tunes. Then there’s a horse-drawn sleigh (wheel assisted) with a guy dressed as Santa. They go around every year and it’s quite a sight. The sleigh stops right in front of our house, and we all troop out to take pics, video etc…
This year, we decided to change things about. There weren’t any gifts under the tree except those that my son bought and wrapped for his mother. (We’d hidden everything else). So, after supper we hear the speakers blaring and all troop out for the Santa bit *except for two people and the gifts magically appear under the tree. I rushed back in to get there ahead of my son, and prepared the video camera for the event. It couldn’t have been better set up.
On screen: you see my son come in from outside holding onto his gift from Santa. He takes two steps inside towards my mother (who can’t go out because of her health) to show her his gift…then he spots the tree. A squeek excapes his lips and he jumps a bit. Then the gift drops from his hands, he takes one step towards the tree, drops to his knees and hugs the gifts saying Thank you thank you!
*He was worried that he wouldn’t be getting anything because he’d been a pain for a few days prior.
Got it all on video ? Shame that America’s Funniest doesn’t take from Canada, eh! ?
I gotta figure out how to go from video (high8) to DVD or mpeg. ?
There’s usually one event that’s worth retelling every season. Sometimes they’re good stories, sometimes not. Get enough family together, add the pre-Christmas stress of shopping, food prep, travel etc…add alcohol cleverly disguised as eggnog and mix well..and enjoy the results. I’m lucky enough that my family gets along, and this year, we had everyone (my bro-in-law’s not in Afghanistan this year).
Got any nice stories?
**
Here’s mine.
Every year, the city where I live has an actual Santa Claus going around giving out gifts to the kiddies that come out to see him. Picture three pickups filled with wrapped toys, one of which also has a huge speaker system belting out Christmas tunes. Then there’s a horse-drawn sleigh (wheel assisted) with a guy dressed as Santa. They go around every year and it’s quite a sight. The sleigh stops right in front of our house, and we all troop out to take pics, video etc…
This year, we decided to change things about. There weren’t any gifts under the tree except those that my son bought and wrapped for his mother. (We’d hidden everything else). So, after supper we hear the speakers blaring and all troop out for the Santa bit *except for two people and the gifts magically appear under the tree. I rushed back in to get there ahead of my son, and prepared the video camera for the event. It couldn’t have been better set up.
On screen: you see my son come in from outside holding onto his gift from Santa. He takes two steps inside towards my mother (who can’t go out because of her health) to show her his gift…then he spots the tree. A squeek excapes his lips and he jumps a bit. Then the gift drops from his hands, he takes one step towards the tree, drops to his knees and hugs the gifts saying Thank you thank you!
*He was worried that he wouldn’t be getting anything because he’d been a pain for a few days prior.
Got it all on video ? Shame that America’s Funniest doesn’t take from Canada, eh! ?
I gotta figure out how to go from video (high8) to DVD or mpeg. ?