It's a Holly Jolly Christmas

Lots of pictures

A few of the hotels had some Christmas decorations so we went to go check them out.  The Hilton 

(our old home) had a train display in the lobby. 

 

 The giant Nutcracker

 Santa and the Carabbo

 Reagan did not want her picture with Santa (even though he was a mannequin)

but liked the carabbo.

 The Hyatt had beautiful Christmas Trees and a life size Gingerbread house.  A few nights during the week they even had Santa.  We went to go see Santa and poor Reagan wanted nothing to do with him.

 The Gingerbread house

 Wondering if we would notice if Reagan stole a cookie off of the house.

 Facts about the Gingerbread House:

- its the largest gingerbread house built on Guam

- stands 12 feet tall

- 144 square feet

- All gingerbread bricks, icing, cookies, and candy on the house are edible

- it took over 400 home baked gingerbread bricks to cover the house

- 800 pounds of royal icing were used for cement and snow

- over 800 cookies were baked to decorate the house

 To create the Gingerbread and icing it took:

- 360 egg whites

- 100 pounds of powder sugar

- 500 pounds of flour

- 200 pounds of honey

- 100 pounds of sugar

- 4 gallons of water

- 2.5 pounds of ginger powder

- 2.5 pounds of cinnamon

- 2.5 pounds of  cloves

- 5 pounds mixed spice

- 7.5 gallons of milk

 Hunters first visit with Santa

 Reagan was not happy about seeing Santa.

Mouthful of candy cane from Santa