Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!

Merry Christmas!!!! Santa Clause has come and visited our home in Texas. We did our usual big Christmas dinner with all of the fixing and then opened up presents. God has been very good to our family this year with countless blessing and a few rough spots that we were able to overcome in strides. Two of my favorite presents this year were a new 12 gauge shot gun (which I died laughing when I opened it thinking of what all my semester at sea friends would say of their Texans). It will be great for quail hunting and any unwanted visitors who might chose to stop by. Also I got a three part scrap book that my sister and mother have put countless hours putting together documenting my voyage.
But I think the best present of all has been being back home with all of my family and friends for the Holidays!
Most of you are wondering how AJ and I Vegas layover went. We ended up having a really great time originally thinking that we would only be there for one night I think that we hit almost every thing there was to do the first night and slept next to none. But the second day when we went to the airport we were told that the flight had been over booked by ten people and that we would have to take the same flight the next day. So they ended up compensating us with $300 air travel vouchers and a hotel room. That night we ended up getting VIP treatment at the Ghost Bar on top of the Palms Casino which is the best club in Vegas. We got a table and the whole nine yards, suffice it to say that we had a great time and highly recommend that you stop by next time in Vegas.
After Vegas and settling in at home Dad planned on us returning to go deer hunting down in central/southern Texas at a ranch with over 34,000 acres (everything’s bigger in Texas) the deer population was very strong and I got a clean shot at a nice white tail.
Now I am enjoying spending time with family and friends. And we are looking forward to our 12 day cruise out of San Diego to the Mexican Rivera to Acapulco Los Cabos etc. I am planning on later returning to Abilene Christian University in the spring and graduating in May.
I must apologize for the chain email/update but I wanted to tell everyone Merry Christmas and may 2006 be better than 2005 as hard as that may sound! Also I was told by many of you on this list that you wanted the link to my blog which is www.chadgriggs.blogspot.com (which has all of my travel stories as well as I am planning on keeping it active and doing a monthly or sooner update as to what is going on in my life) also my photos from my trips are at http://community.webshots.com/user/chadgriggs


God Bless and Merry Christmas,
Chad