The seventh day before Christmas

I'm being called for yet another game of Alhambra (an excellent game, by the way, somewhere in between Puerto Rico and Settlers), so I'll post and run.  In a somewhat related note, I enjoyed the new Dawn Treader movie, but it was quite different from the book in some ways.  If you're a purist, you may want to skip it.

Some of the pictures of Father Christmas in our world make him look only funny and jolly. But now that the children actually stood looking at him they didn't find it quite like that. He was so big, and so glad, and so real, that they all became quite still. They felt very glad, but also solemn.

-C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.