{"id":422,"date":"2009-12-06T21:53:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T02:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hellum.ca\/blog\/?p=422"},"modified":"2009-12-06T21:53:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T02:53:28","slug":"globe-and-mail-christmas-parte-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hellum.ca\/blog\/globe-and-mail-christmas-parte-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Globe and Mail Christmas Part\u00e9 – 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again we attended the Globe and Mail Christmas party at the Liberty Grand down near Ontario Place. The kids start looking forward to it a month a head of time. They get to meet Santa and Mrs. Claus. Not some old guy in a red suit, but the Real Deal, as you’ll see below. This year, they brought their Christmas lists with them and presented them quite seriously to His Lordship. I carefully scanned their originals earlier in the day, and they presented excellent copies.<\/p>\n

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Owen was mightily pleased with his racer car (remote or manually zoomable) and had an excellent area with which to put it through its paces:<\/p>\n

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Owen also became be-snaked, as happens each year as well:<\/p>\n

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Finn giggled with her Mama and loved her present too (a bear):<\/p>\n

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Finn charmed all and received a unicorn on her cheek to show for it:<\/p>\n

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…and was thereafter hugged (in a rare opportunity) by Owen for a nice Christmas photo:<\/p>\n

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And what is a Christmas party without a little clambering around on things?<\/p>\n

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It went by very quickly overall, quicker than previous years. Not sure why that happened, except that we saw and chatted with fewer people than we have previously. I think its great the Globe puts on this kind of thing for the kids, right through a global recession. There must have been 300 or so people there all told. We managed a quick thank you to the Publisher on his way out the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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