Christmas was all about improvisation and eating! Despite the fact that the snow was melting and our hopes of a white Christmas with it, we set about having a memorable Christmas. In the morning of Christmas Eve, we went into the town to buy everything we needed. That included sneaking around town, trying to buy presents for each other without being seen, a difficult task in a town the size of Jasper! We headed home to start cooking. We were determined to have a christmas tree of sorts and Quin set out to find one. He went down the street and snuck into a neighbour's yard where he yanked a branch of their pine tree! We propped the "tree" up in a pot and decorated it with whatever we could find. Foil balls, string, paper stars,
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