Christmas Time


ARE YOU A HOCKEY FAN?
In December we (Courtney, Kathrin, Christoph, Hannah and Fritzi (Jess)) watched the Red Deer Rebels compete against the Calgary Hitmen. For Hannah and Fritzi it was their first Hockey game to see ever. Being aware of  soccer rules(and their slight similarity to hockey rules) it was a challenge for us to catch up with this traditional Canadian sport.
Unfortunately the Rebels, whom we were cheering and shaking our rattles for, lost.
The final result:

Red Deer Rebels 1 : 2 Calgary Hitmen

But this didn't keep us from taking a photo with our friend and mascot Woolly Bully.

First Canadian Christmas!
This is/was our Evergreen Christmas Tree 2012.  Can you see him smiling at you? :)
On the 18th of December we had a staff Christmas celebration. After going out for dinner in Sundre we had a gift exchange. There were all kinds of gifts from M&M dispensers to funky flash lights and other cool things.  Our thanks goes out to Bob and Bev for this wonderful evening.

On a typical German Christmas people open their presents already on the evening of the 24th and every family has got their own tradition for what they have for dinner. We Germans celebrated this year our first Canadian Christmas at Courtney's parents' house and enjoyed traditions like Turkey dinner, The Sound Of Music and Carol Of The Bells.
Our families back in Germany were almost able to celebrate Christmas with a barbecue and unusual +20 degrees!


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