The Nixnerd

Nikki’s mother’s husband’s brother, Mark (didja follow that? got here, today. We’re ready to party. Almost. It turns out that there are signs that if you block the road for snow plows, you will be towed. We weren’t sure if we left enough space for the plow to pass and we sure weren’t going to be able to scoop the snow out of the way to make more room. We had several theories about what to do but Nikki came up with the winning solution. We called the hotel at “the village” (at Lake Arrowhead) to see if we could pay there for parking. We couldn’t but heard from a little birdie that tow trucks don’t fit into the parking garage. So, we shuttled four cars down there and brought one back. We decided that if the one car gets towed we’d all split the fees. We decided to keep Mike’s car (for those of you in the back, Mike is Nikki’s mother’s husband — got that? because we can put chains on his an not on the Toyota Hylander we rented (which was doing excellent in the snow with crappy tires, mind you).

Then someone special visited — Santa! He had some presents for the kids and we followed up Santa’s visit by opening gifts. Nikki’s family has a nice, organized way of opening presents so it’s not a big free-for-all with paper flying (kinda like it’ll be when Zaiden gets a little order!). Everyone got some nice gifts and we had a wonderful time. Click on the photo to the right for some more pictures of this. It was really fun!