What are your Colorado holiday traditions? (Arvada, Longmont: rent, restaurant, cabin)

[formercalifornian]

In what special ways do you and yours celebrate the the holidays?

Do you:

* cut your own Christmas tree?
* see a special show?
* give traditional gifts?
* go to midnight Mass?
* rent a cabin in the mountains?
* eat a unique meal?

I'd love to know about all about your Colorado traditions.

[Sockeye]

My folks place outside Longmont for Xmas Eve and Xmas morning, then my in-laws in Arvada for Christmas dinner. We also make an annual run to The Fort restaurant during the holidays. We're meeting family and friends there tonight. There are four women decked out in Victorian garb who go around the restaurant caroling, and are very good.

[DgoNative]

My friend and I have been meeting up on Christmas day for an accidental tradition that we started. We have been meeting up on Christmas day, right after breakfast, driving into one of the mountain ranges with a thermos full of hot chocolate and Kahlua and snowshoe till the light starts to turn. This year will be year 6.

[Pilot1]

We go up to Evergreen every year cut our own tree and have a few drinks at Cactus Jack's.

[Katiana]

We like to do at leasat one family activity such as going to the Nutcracker or a Christmas play or concert.

[Lupulin]

The wife and I have made a tradition of going skiing on Christmas Day. We don't go up every year, but we've gone 4 Christmases in the last 6 years, and we plan to go this year. It's usually a pretty good time to go (no crowds), too, especially in the morning. Resorts that don't have a lot of lodging are much less crowded (i.e., Loveland is great).Then we like to cook some surf (lobster) and turf (steak) and drink a lot of good beer. We just find turkey and ham to be boring.Happy holidays everyone!