Christmas Presents

Our good friend Jaime sent us a box of presents from Puerto Rico. William got a Gold Mining kit. Here are Papa and Owen and William mining gold. They found EIGHT pieces of gold (aka pyrite) and had a great time. Owen got a detective kit which he is very excited about. Thank you, Jaime! Ryan got a fly fishing fly tying kit and a very useful book. He says thank you too. :)I got an extra fancy corkscrew and wine bottle topper. I used the corkscrew for the first time the other day, or more accurately, I tried to use the foil cutter it came with. I struggled with it for a bit, wondering why it wasn't working as well as it looked like it should. I finally got the "foil" off, only to discover that it wasn't a corked wine bottle at all but was instead a capped one. Oops. I have to say, the foil cutter did a remarkly good job of cutting the top off the cap.

Merry Christmas!