Since it was Christmas and nothing was going to be open anyway, we decided to take it easy and spend a day not doing much of anything. We continued to camp in Brantley Lake SP since it was a nice campsite with pretty views of the lake.
Christmas dinner in the van turned out to be a roaring success. Yesterday, we had gotten a roasted chicken from the deli at Albertsons and I made stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans, and sautéed zucchini with onions. We also had cranberry sauce and apple pie with whipped cream for dessert.
Cooking dinner wasn’t actually too difficult. I have two small pots and a toaster oven (usable since we have shore power at the campsite). Since the stuffing and mashed potatoes were “instant,” they were very easy. The zucchini took a bit longer, but you can just set it and let it go. The green beans were just canned, so no time sink there. All in all, I’d estimate it took me about 30 minutes from start to finish to have Christmas dinner on the table. Can’t beat that. And Jay only had two pots and a tiny roasting sheet to clean up.