{"id":1439,"date":"2025-12-26T14:42:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T14:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/littlecedarfarm.ca\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2026-01-11T14:44:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T14:44:49","slug":"christmas-boxing-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/littlecedarfarm.ca\/?p=1439","title":{"rendered":"Christmas & Boxing Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The shenanigans of Christmas Eve caught up with me\u2014the perfect trifecta: I caught the bug Cedar had fought off last week, drank too much champagne, and definitely didn\u2019t get enough sleep. It definitely wasn\u2019t my finest<\/em> Christmas morning\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, both Sheila and I rallied (alright, Sheila rallied), and Cedar woke up to the magical discovery that Santa had indeed found our little apartment in Saas Fee. A few small presents sat waiting under our perfectly miniature Christmas tree, and\u2014equally surprising\u2014the cookies, milk, and lone carrot for Rudolph had all vanished. Clear evidence of a successful visit by the big man himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I managed to get through stockings and presents, and even made (but didn\u2019t eat) a pan of bacon before admitting defeat and crawling back into bed, trying to sleep off the dreaded man cold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sheila and Cedar, however, weren\u2019t about to let Christmas Day go to waste. They headed out for a few runs on the mountain\u2014yes, snowboarding on Christmas Day\u2014as well as some sledding, gl\u00fchwein, and hot chocolate. Not bad at all. By the time dinner rolled around, I was feeling a bit more human, and we made our way to Don Ciccio\u2019s to wish the Barbiero family a Merry Christmas and enjoy a cozy holiday dinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was happy to see I wasn\u2019t the only one feeling rough from the night prior. I think the karaoke (and maybe the wine) had done a number on both Ina and Andrea. Gabriele\u2014who had left the party early to sing in the church choir, then hit up the nightclub, and was back singing again on Christmas morning\u2014was looking surprisingly chipper. Oh, to be twenty-something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We do love our time here celebrating Christmas, but want to send a heartfelt Merry Christmas from Switzerland<\/em> to all our friends and family back home. We love you and miss you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boxing Day Boarding & Berliners<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Boxing Day was just as full. We squeezed in another boarding session\u2014Cedar\u2019s confidence is sky-high after his week of lessons and conquering his first red run. It\u2019s incredible to watch him gain independence (and also speed).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later in the day, we met up with Angelo and Jasmin for a spin around the outdoor ice rink. It was great to connect and get a little window into her family\u2019s Boxing Day tradition: a skate and a \u201cBerliner\u201d\u2014a warm, jelly-filled doughnut. Not bad at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afterward, we picked up one last pizza from Don Ciccio\u2019s and headed back for a quiet night of packing and cleaning up the apartment before the next leg of the journey: back to Chernex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hard to believe our Saas Fee chapter has come to an end. We packed these past couple weeks to the brim, and I think my legs are begging for mercy after snowboarding almost every day. Hopefully it will have served as good practice when we swap the boards for hiking boots\u2014pretty sure our Chernex crew has some Swiss walks<\/em> lined up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Year\u2019s back home in Chernex. Here we come!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The shenanigans of Christmas Eve caught up with me\u2014the perfect trifecta: I caught the bug Cedar had fought off last week, drank too much champagne, and definitely didn\u2019t get enough sleep. It definitely wasn\u2019t my finest Christmas morning\u2026 Still, both Sheila and I rallied (alright, Sheila rallied), and Cedar woke up to the magical discovery […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,12,15,14,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas","category-food-and-drink","category-friends-and-family","category-outdoors","category-saas-fee"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/littlecedarfarm.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_3597-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlecedarfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlecedarfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlecedarfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlecedarfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlecedarfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/littlecedarfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"https:\/\/littlecedarfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlecedarfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/littlecedarfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlecedarfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/littlecedarfarm.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}