Boxing Day

The theme of this years gifts was "It's cold here and I want to go back home".

Mr Bob got me a great gift. He blew up 5 photos from last years kyack trip and framed them. It was such a great trip and, to me, Vancouver Island is the most beautiful place on earth. In the cold theme, he also got me a very nice dressing gown. I also recieved slippers, pajama pants and a silk long underwear shirt.
My parents got me a calender of rivers of B.C. and a book on secret kyack routes around Vancouver Island.

My BIL gave Mr. Bob and I a framed print. It was a cheap print from Zellers with a washed out picture of a winding garden path and an arch with roses over it. We unwrapped it and looked at it and kinda winced and talked about taking out the picture and using the frame for some other photos.

Later that day, Mr Bob was talking to his brother (25, lives with roomates, no serious girlfriend, tonnes of friends, loves his car and clothes and drinking). His brother mentioned he bought the picture because the arch reminded him of our wedding a year and a bit ago (which had a decorated arch that we all entered through). I am now so touched. It wasn't the kind of thing I expected him to notice ( I barely remembered) and for him to remember it a year later was quite sweet. I am also happy he remembered our wedding fondly.

So there will be no more talk of tearing apart the picture.