It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas...

Happy holidays, everybody! As usual, December seems to be galloping by at breakneck speed!

Back on Sunday morning, Santa and Mrs. Claus rode through our neighborhood in style! They travelled at a much more leisurely pace. =)

It would've been more festive if the surrounding landscape was white, but for the sake of the horse and everybody's fingers, toes, and faces, we're glad the snow and ice held off.

Speaking of the white stuff, this was our area's weather forecast for Christmas week:

We were skeptical, but for once the meteorologists were right! The quiet greenness persisted through Wednesday, Dec 23. We went to bed to rain and wind and woke up to this on Christmas Eve morning!

Talk about perfect timing! It's been looking like a snow globe all day!

Timing hasn't been quite so perfect on HI3, not that I'm complaining. Our streak of finding lucky finds and high stat wilds seems to be over, and we've had no success finding any of the newly-introduced donkeys either. It's all good, though - we already have so many new horses that we're way behind in getting them their own saddle pad and polos and discovering their favorite treats. Maybe now with Christmas break stretching happily ahead, we'll finally get all caught up!

We haven't done anything that Christmas-y on the game, unless discovering ice castles counts?

...or shape shifting into a fawn?

Two of the wilds we've lassoed have had season-appropriate names, at least:

I think this pony we caught last night was a bit confused:

Some players, like these two, are going all out!

Wow, well done!

Finally, this has nothing to do with Christmas, but we did see our first whale this week, and at very close range!

This one seemed to like hanging out near and under our kayak! <3