David: Well, it's mid-December, and it's getting closer to Christmastime. I'm excited about it, you know? It's a time that everybody seems to enjoy the season, and the getting together with your family, and all that. Jill, what are your plans for your Christmas season?
Jill: I am going to have a nice, fairly quiet, hopefully mellow Christmas with my family, my mom and siblings, and grandpa, and aunt and uncle who are coming into town from Edmonton. Just going to have a nice dinner, and open some gifts and hang out together, and that's really about it. And probably do some nice outdoor activities on my days off, like snowshoeing and things of that nature.
David: Speaking of "nature girl," I know how much you like it. So, you actually enjoy nature when it's this frightfully cold outside? Jill: This is not cold-well, I say that and I have a heater on all day long on my feet at work, but I love being outside. I get up in the mornings and go running at 6:30. I'm cold when I first start, but within two minutes I'm warm, and the fresh air is totally invigorating. As long as you're active, you don't feel cold. You dress appropriately, and-yeah, you dress appropriately and then everything's fine. David: Keith, what are your plans, my friend?
Keith: Oh, it's a fun-filled, action-packed however many weeks that I have. Everybody knows why, I'm a teacher, so I have two weeks off, which is two weeks more than everybody else on the face of the Earth. This is why everybody's so bitterly angry at teachers, that we get so much time off. Anyhow, yeah, I'm going to Jasper with my family to ski and have fun and hang out. Should be crazy, because we are traveling with a five-year-old and a two-year-old, and the two-year-old is a growing concern, so she'll be just out of control for most of it. Five-hour drive will be interesting from Prince George to Jasper, as long as the weather's okay and we don't have to take our lives in our hands driving that scary road at times to Jasper. Looking forward to it, staying in Jasper Park Lodge, so that will be very nice, and actually, I am going to try snowboarding for this ski trip. I'm a skier, but I'm going to try snowboarding, and break both legs instead of just one at a time. Jill: The tailbone.
Keith: And wrists. Wrists and tailbone. But they've had-I've been watching the Marmot Basin website intently, every single day checking, and they have a ton of snow, so I'm looking forward to skiing Rocky Mountain powder, rather than West Coast cement snow, instead of the-so it's going to be fun. Fun, fun, fun.
David: Very interesting. I wonder what my plans are going to be. Well, since you asked, you know, it's going to be a typical family Christmas. The fact that I'm employed makes it a bit more enjoyable this Christmas. Considering my sister's expecting a wee baby in May, it's sort of a-in a way we have an extra person at the table for dinner. We've got Grandpa and Auntie Denise and all them are coming over, we're going to have a nice, big, turkey dinner. We're the kind of family that opens their presents in the morning, and we think that anyone who opens their presents on Christmas Eve is a heretic, absolutely. It's not right! It's not the way God intended it to be done. Basically, what I'll be doing is I'll be opening my presents as quick as possible on Christmas morning, because there's going to be two awesome basketball games on, which trumps Christmas-I'm kidding about that, of course-but there's basketball, so I'll be opening them up quick, quick, quick, quick, quick, and then getting downstairs to watch my basketball game.
