Christmas in the RV Park

This Christmas we decided that instead of joining the Christmas rush on the highways to visit friends or family, we would stay in the RV park and enjoy food and festivities with fellow campers. A few days before Christmas it looked as though we might have a very small group on hand for the celebration.

Then a couple of days before Christmas, the rigs started pouring in. The park was nearly full to capacity by the time December 25th rolled around. What could have been a quiet Christmas turned instead into an endless celebration as we met new friends and enjoyed scrumptious meals in the family center.

On Christmas Eve, some of us attended the candlelight service in the park. Then on Christmas day, each family bore a steaming plate of food to the family center, where the park had prepared turkey and ham. So much food, so little time! Everything looked tempting, but we finally settled down to a plate of delicious food followed by delightful delicacies for dessert.

Celebrating didn’t end December 26th. There was New Year’s Eve and a noisy party in the family center with a great band and lots of dancing and reveling. Oh, and I shouldn’t leave out the wonderful food. We shoveled in prime rib and salmon wrapped in pastry plus appetizers, twice-baked potatoes, and again, wonderful desserts. Then on New Year’s Day, we all swarmed back to the family center for a 3-hour breakfast buffet. I mention the time because some people, like hubby, spent the entire 3 hours sampling everything on the buffet line.

In between activities at the family center, we heated up the nights by our fire pit. We have great next-door neighbors in the park with the sweetest, most gorgeous yellow lab we’ve ever seen named Dixie. Our neighbor has been gathering driftwood from down by the river for days, so we placed our fire pit on the grass lawn that separates our rigs, and have so far sat around it twice sharing popcorn and cookies with anyone who wanders by. The last time we had twelve RVers sitting around swapping adventures.

If you’re wondering what will happen when you’re RVing on holidays and can’t make it back home to your family, rest assured that most RV parks offer their own celebrations in the form of wonderful meals and festivities. If they don’t, you can always find some willing fellow campers to share meals and experiences with. There’s never a reason to be alone when you are in your home on the road—no matter how far from “home” you might be.