We’d like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I hope everyone gets a chance to take a break and relax for a few days, preferably in the company of some fresh snow, a fireplace and a glass of eggnog. For us its going to be a bit of traveling. We are heading back to the old country for a week or so. We will be visiting Barb’s family on Christmas Eve, then up north to Baysville for a few days, then off to Ottawa to visit with a good friend and finally back home for New Years. Looks like a White Christmas is guaranteed this year as my parents have over two feet of snow already. While we are up there we hope to do some skiing at Sir Sam’s in Haliburton and maybe some skating and tobogganing as well.