Emmanuel's Visit Day 9: Winter: Christmas Day

Today Kevin and I woke up early to see what "Santa" had brought us.  We had to wait for everyone to wake up and then once they were all awake we had to wait for Hannah to come over, which took forever.  Finally everyone was at the house, awake, had their coffee and seemed happy.  We always start by opening our stockings.   Everyone has one even the dogs, we had gotten Emmanuel one the day before and hung it on the fireplace with all the others.  We each took ours down and took all the stuff out.  It was normally just candy and little toys.  When we were done opening them we started passing out presents.  My sisters and I had a tradition of giving each other christmas ornaments so that we have more and more every year.  I handed each of them their ornament, I gave Ashley a fabric owl and Hannah a glass snowman.  I gave Kevin some stupid video game that he had been wanting forever.  I gave Emmanuel a photo journal of all the pictures I had taken while he was here.  He loved it! No one else in the family liked presents so I just made them handmade cards every year.  I got lots of things, but my favorite was my Harry Potter shoes that my Aunt had painted.  Hannah got a new ipod and Ashley got a new unicycle for riding in New York.  Everyone had to give Emmanuel small things that could fit in his bag so none of his presents were very exciting, but he seemed to be very pleased with what he had been given.  When we were done opening presents we took two cars to the beach and Ashley and I had our unicycles and we rode while everyone else walked on the beach.  When we were done with our walk we went to eat lunch at the Cajun Kitchen, but most of us had breakfast foods.  When we were finished eating we went home and my grandma and aunt took a nap and my sisters went downtown with their friends, so I convinced my dad to take Kevin, Emmanuel and I to the Santa Barbara Ice company so we could get dry ice.  I loved dry ice, because it was so fun to play with.  We got about five pounds, took it home in the yard boiled lots of water then put the water in two trash cans one with some soap and one without.  The one with soap started to bubble the bubbles overflowed the trash can.  We picked them up and blew them and threw them at each other.  When they were popped the smoke was let out so it go all foggy.  The one without soap just smoked and covered the whole ground with grey fog.  When our dry ice fun was over it was time to make dinner.  We made rice and avocado and my dad grilled chicken, which I wouldn't be eating.  We helped cook then of corse we helped eat.  After that we did the dishes and watched another lame movie that no one seemed to like.  When the movie ended Emmanuel came up to me and said, "thank you for a wonderful day."  I said, "your welcome, I hope we can do this again."  We got ready for bed and then went to sleep.