We hope you all had a Merry Christmas. The Mierins family had a great Christmas mostly because we got to spend it together as a family. We decided to do a special Christmas this year in Reno. We left Thursday afternoon and arrived in Reno about 3 pm. We stayed at the Circus Circus hotel and were expecting a quiet time together. Were we wrong. The place was crowded and started to get such about an hour after we arrived.

Our first task was to find a Christmas Eve service, which we did at a local Lutheran church. it was a nice candlelight service and reminded us of the great tradition we had when living in New Hampshire. After a light dinner, we gathered together to read Luke 2 and then went to bed. Nikolas was a bit concerned that Santa would not be able to find us, we assured him it would not be a problem.

Sure enough Santa did find us and the boys were very excited come Christmas morning. We enjoyed opening presents throughout the day. We had a nice brunch and took the boys to play in the midway at Circus Circus. By the end of the day we were quite tired and all had a good night's rest.

The rest of the trip went well. We went to planetarium and Nevada History Museum and took a nice tour of Reno. We did the obligatory day after Christmas shopping which left Gail happy and had some great pizza and bar-B-Q before heading home. It was a great trip.