Oh what fun it was to spend an evening with the great young women in my cluster from all over the world having laughs with each other and sharing the holidays!

This is the 16th Au Pair Christmas Party for Victoria Paton, the Senior Community Counselor for the Potomac Shoreline Cluster of Au Pair in America (Potomac, Bethesda, Cabin John and Glen Echo, Maryland who says “It is very important for me to make Christmas special for my Au Pairs as it may be their first time ever to be away from family at the holidays”.

We all gathered on a Friday night for lots and lots of donuts at Krispy Kreme in Rockville, Maryalnd who were great hosts and very interested in the fun the Au Pairs were having.

Each Au Pair signed in, selected a holiday hat, dropped a pre-wrapped gift into a Santa’s sack,  and settled in for laughs and activities.

The Grab Bag game with Mr and Mrs. Wright (Right/left game) was a giggle.  Some Au Pairs were surprised that the gift they pulled from Santa’s sack would go right and left several times before they received the package she could open.

Nadine from Germany loved her stocking

 

 

We even had an ugly Christmas outfit competition won by “Miss Thailand” who was dressed as a Christmas Tree complete with pine cone, dangling earrings!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lastly, Au Pairs decorated several small trees to be raffled off and taken home to decorate an Au Pair’s room at the holidays.