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Christmas In a Hotel

By Marylan Langbata

Everyone must have a Christmas tradition such as putting up lights with mom and dad,

Secret Santa with friends and family, or even drinking hot cocoa and talking about our favorite

moments with our families, but Mrs. Bramwell’s Christmas tradition is very different!

When Mrs. Bramwell was 7 or 8 years old, she and her family would go to a hotel every

Christmas Eve. They would go out and

see the Christmas lights, then her dad

would stop by a hotel and rent a room

for the family. Mrs. Bramwell and her

family would sit inside the hotel’s hot

tub, order pizza, and play board games.

Once she and her family were done

having fun in the hot tub, they would go

back up to their room and get ready to go on a walk to Steak n Shake, which was near the hotel

they were sleeping at on Christmas Eve. After getting back from Steak n Shake, they would have

a family dinner night. She and her brothers would wear matching pajamas her mother bought.

Right when it was their bedtime, Mrs. Bramwell and her brothers would stay up that whole night

just to watch a Christmas movie. As a little girl, she would stay up with her brothers until six in

the morning.

Mrs. Bramwell and her brothers would wake her parents up to leave the hotel and go

back home. Once they arrived home, they would get ready to open presents and see what was