Round 1 of Rob's 2008 Christmas Vacation Photos
January 6th, 2008

This year for our two week, PAID holiday vacation, my wife and I spent the first week at home enjoying Christmas and then got the hell out of hell and headed to the coast for New Year’s week. For now, I present part one of our 2008 Christmas holiday photos, taking us through Christmas night.

Here we have our 9 foot tall tree, filled with ornaments, stuffed animals and tons of presents beneath. If you look closely, you can see some of the dorky names my wife and I put on our tags to each other.

Speaking of my wife, Janell, this year her holiday nails were candy cane themed.

On Saturday night, December 20th, Janell and I dressed up for a holiday party at our accountant’s house (insert joke here).

Sadly, Dawn uses the same accountant as me, so she and her husband Gary were going to the same party which meant I had to spend time with Dawn on my vacation. We started the night at their house.

This is Dawn’s stupid country Christmas tree with a cat hiding underneath it.

Here are a couple of pictures all Rob Haters will enjoy. Spending time with Dawn Saturday night got me sick. I finished the evening puking my guts out and didn’t recover until Monday. It was some form of Dawn-itis.

Being sick gave me time to photograph each of our pets enjoying the holiday decorations, beginning with Cabernet the enormous black cat, then Parker the bitchy cat, followed by Nellie the white Shepherd and Shep, the perfect dog.

After recovering from the holiday flu faster than any other mortal would, Tuesday December 23rd was a sad day in the world of journalism as one of my heroes, Brit Hume, anchored his final show before semi-retirement. It’s so hard to say good-bye.

For some stupid reason, Gary and I decided to try golf on a morning when it was 37 degrees outside and we couldn’t even see out of the damn cart. We played about 12 holes and then decided to declare ourselves total pussies and call it quits.

It’s a holiday miracle. Just a few weeks ago, Arnie was mocking people who stop and watch sheep and goats as they eat grass to trim local fields. Sure enough, on the day before Christmas Eve, we looked out our back fence to hear and see hundreds of sheep and a few looky-loos as well.

This was hysterical; as soon as Shep figured out what was going on he couldn’t contain himself…he started barking at the sheep and so badly wanted to go herd them!

Christmas Eve brought me some early presents! While doing some last minute shopping for our Christmas dinner, I ran right into a door-buster sale that netted me a new laptop for $500 and a blue-ray player (with HDMI cable, thank you very much) for just $99. Suck it!

Every Christmas Eve my wife and I head out as darkness arrives…

And we drive through the neighborhood she grew up in in Granite Bay, Ca, where a bunch of houses go over the top with their decorating.

Christmas Eve also brought early presents for Dawn. Here, courtesy of a special delivery from our friends at the Griffin & Reed Eye Care Center (916-485-2020), Dawn gets her very own Obama doll. Idiot.

Dawn also got a very special rooster calendar from my wife because we all know how much she loves cocks.

Sadly, another of our Christmas eve traditions is to go to Dawn’s annual open house, which means I have to see Dawn AGAIN on vacation.

It wasn’t long before Dawn was drunk and smoking, even as my wife lectured her.

Christmas morning means my wife and I each sit with the other’s presents and hand them to each other one by one. Nellie also joined us this year.

Here we have the Yule Log on TV and our fireplace as well…can you tell which is which?

There was a theme to some of our presents this year. I got a lot of really nice, expensive, rare scotch…

…and Janell got a lot of Tiffany jewelry.

There were other gifts as well including some new all white crocodile golf shoes…

And for my wife 4 pairs of UGG furry slippers.

Janell also got a new diamond watch this year because she’s been a very naughty girl.

I also scored another Bugs Bunny cel for my collection and a whole new set of top of the line ceramic fusion cookware!

Finally, it’s Christmas night and time for 12 of our closest friends to enjoy a holiday dinner of prime rib and awesomeness.

Producer Cristi has arrived, making a dramatic entrance.

Cristi’s boyfriend Scotty couldn’t believe what an ass Cristi was making of herself. Actually, that’s not true…he could totally believe it.

Here we have the ugly shirted station manager and his family along with some big fat bearded guy in a red suit.

Former producer Fat Nick and his awesome girlfriend Charlotte (a chubby chaser) were on hand as well this year.

The party lasted from 3pm – 9pm and was a great time of eating, drinking and making fun of Arnie and Dawn for not being there. The next morning my wife and I left for San Simeon…those pictures will be up next week...

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