Across
- 2. Jeslie or Joan
- 5. How we feel about our crazy card exchange tradition.
- 7. Chestnuts or Phoenix in July.
- 8. UC Barbara or a generous fat, hairy white man.
- 10. King Cole
- 13. Pete Ellis Dodge 1095 W. El Camino Real
- 14. Mrs. Decena
- 19. The best mall for Christmas shopping and buying Hello Kitty stuff and Mrs. Fields cookies from.
- 22. Rocking New Year’s Eve.
- 24. The older of the Decena girls.
- 25. “An expensive way to break your leg,” is what my dad called this activity when we begged him to take us to do it.
- 26. Whatever he touches melts in his clutches.
- 27. Shoot your eye out.
Down
- 1. your father’s mother was so plastered she couldn’t move out of the way of this thing on Christmas Eve.
- 3. To the world, or what I feel when I find a Christmas card from you in my mailbox.
- 4. Disgusting baked good that appears at Christmas.
- 6. Name of the place in East SJ to buy a pumpkin or a Christmas tree or last name of a family in East SJ who sold pumpkins and trees.
- 9. When we should stop exchanging Christmas cards.
- 11. The white stuff that never came out of the sky for us at Christmas in SJ.
- 12. The reason for the season.
- 13. The year 2020 in one word.
- 15. The person I’m giving my heart to in order to save myself from tears.
- 16. Compression I wear on an airplane or a slender bag hung with great care to hold gifts.
- 17. Midnight
- 18. No one has ever had this flavor of pudding even though we threaten not to leave until we get some.
- 20. Gena’s favorite part of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is when this thing chews on the light cord and is electrocuted.
- 21. The best person to exchange Christmas cards with.
- 23. Keep in touch!
