It's funny - my family also watches National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation when we get together in the D.C area each year (OK, I've missed a few here and there since 2003...) usually a couple of days before Christmas while sipping holiday cocktails.
I plan on making it this year.
Good to know that this tradition is more popular than we thought. :-)
I hope you do the ‘Christmas Vacation’ tradition this year. Even if you are by yourself. What I find amazing is that, as silly as that movie is, it speaks the TRUTH, and the average folk can be associated with it. Remember that crazy Uncle or Aunt?) She wrapped up the cat for crying out loud. My Aunt did that too, except it was a squirrel. Too funny. God Bless.
Hang your flag proudly. Fight for our Country and VOTE.
Also, Merry Christmas, Easter, and all the other great traditions of the Mighty USA. Traditions that soon will be banned by the Govt. under the 0pansy watch.
I just heard that Halloween will be banned in the 0pasny state of CA. I'm still confirming that. However, if true, it shows you the direction our Mighty USA is leaning twards. For as you know, should 0pansy win in 2012, you, me, and our familys will end up in the ‘goo-log’. AKA, the Mighty USA will be ‘fundementally transformed’ (by 0pansy).
Our tradition will then be lost. Dang, I cry just thinking about this.
Hey, remember, In the movie when Chevy plugged in the exterior lights? And the support his wife gave him. Even when the lights did not work. Now, that's Love. I have that love for our Country.
From the Fiddler on the Roof, “Tradition”.
God Bless you and yours. Hope you get home this year. Family is too important.
redshawk.