"'Twas the day before Christmas...."

Four players appeared for Saturday morning mixed doubles on Christmas Eve Day 2011.  (Lucky Bob: the sole man on the court with three Empresses.) 

'Twas the day before Christmas

And there on the courts

Were four hardy souls

Engaged in their sport.

Though the weather was chill, 

Competition was hot:

They all knew the thrill

Of making that shot.

Is Empress Sue dreaming of a white Christmas?  A new racquet under the tree?  Or a beach at Hilton Head?

The players' red and green cars and attire, side by side, added a happy holiday air to the mostly empty parking lot.  Three Empresses pause before dashing away, all, to hang their stockings by the chimney with care.

And so 2011, the Year of the quick and nimble Rabbit, came to an end.  On to 2012, the Year of the Dragon.  Let us hope that, on the Courts of the Emerald Empire, it is not the Year of the Draggin'.