What are your best memories while deployed during the Holidays?

As we get closer to the Holidays I was thinking about the good times that were had during the Holidays while deployed. Mine would have to be during Desert Shield. We were set up in tent city at King Fhad Airport. No CHU's. Just line after line of Hadji tents that everyone lived in as best as possible. We were in a somewhat "down" mode for the holidays(minus guard duty etc). They had done the best they could with chow(some terrible looking bird-like thing they called chicken). We had started probably the longest spades game in history(I think we decided first team to 250,000 wins). We'd start playing then when people got tired of playing new guys would just hop in and keep going. Everyone got involved in that at one time or another. Even CDR and 1SG popped in for a hand or 2. We had fashioned Christmas trees out of MRE boxes(cut out outline of tree), and hung red and green chem lights off it. Caroling was done thru out Co area(really bad idea..no one could carry a tune in a bucket). One of our sister companies had rigged a outdoor movie theatre off the side of a conex with a generation 1 projector..lol. Yeah it sucked, we weren't home, we were prepping to unleash some serious whoop ass on Sadaam, but that day and a half really has stuck with me all these years later.