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Saturday, December 15, 2007

Pillage the Village

Some people have very touching Christmas traditions, involving Secret Santa's, doorbell ditching with warm treats or caroling to the neighbors. Our annual Christmas tradition is a little more unique/twisted. Every year, Barb sets up the Christmas Village, complete with a town hall, church, post office, school, and several villagers. It starts out looking quite traditional and delightful, like this:


As soon as Barb completes her rendition of the village, John always sneaks in with some powerful and destructive force that puts the entire village in peril. The first year he did it, Barb came home one day to find that the Millennial Falcon had landed in the middle of the village, and that Star Wars bounty hunters were holding several villagers at gunpoint. The year after that, the village was terrorized by famous Hollywood monsters, including Dracula, Frankenstein, Wolfman and The Mummy. Last year, the hapless villagers were captured and and plundered by a fierce band of pirates. So after surviving all that, Barb came home this year to find that the village had fallen victim to bloodthirsty pack of thought-to-be-extinct dinosaurs. Here's what our Christmas Village ended up looking like this year:




There you have it. Stay tuned to see what misfortunes will befall the villagers next year. Merry Christmas!

posted by Barb and John at 7:31 PM

2 Comments:

Blogger Becky @ Project Domestication said...

This is the most unique tradition I have hard of this year! I'm a huge fan. My favorite is the village person being eaten by the large dino.

December 16, 2007 at 4:08 PM  
Blogger Jimmy Z said...

Holy cow! Esther and I laughed so hard when we saw this! That's way funny!

April 9, 2008 at 11:24 PM  

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