December 15th
"Finally im done with finals, we can go away now" Rory squeal's happily
"Yes, we can finally leave. The bags are in the car you just need to change, and we can head off" Logan says
"You never did tell me where we are going" Rory whines
"I know I didn't," Logan says smiling
"Why won't you tell me," Rory asks
"I like to surprise you, and I know you love my surprises so just relax," Logan says
"I don't want a surprise I'm 6 months pregnant and need to plan details you know," Rory says
"Don't worry all details have been worked out, You mom packed a bag for anything you may need on the way and if you need anything there or on the way we can buy it?" Logan says smirking
"Evil man, Fine I will stop asking. You know I'm going to miss Christmas with family kind of, but I know next year will be a huge deal with the baby here" Rory whines
"Yes, this will be our last Christmas with just us, we should enjoy it because we won't have a quiet Christmas for 19 or more years," Logan says laughing
What Rory didn't know was Logan, and the Morgan's had arranged to have the whole top floor of a Morgan hotel booked for all of their family and friends to have Christmas with them. It was all planned that they would be alone till Monday when Finn, Robert, Paris, Honor, Colin, Steph and Tristan showed up, then on Friday the elders would fly in and meet up with the kids.
At The Airport
"Logan we are at Van Nuys in California....." Rory says
"Yes we are, it's warmer than New Haven but not far away in case anything happens," Logan says
"Where are we staying," Rory asks
"One of the morgans hotels in Los Angeles, we still have to get on the helicopter to the hotel, no messing with traffic we need to get to dinner," Logan says
"Yes baby and I are kind of hungry" Rory says
Over the next 2 days, Logan and Rory spent their time between bed, the spa and eating at a new restaurant every meal, They talked about baby names, how many kids they wanted, how far apart they wanted kids and what they would like to happen over the next 5 years.
When Monday came around Logan made sure to have Rory out of the penthouse suite when their friends would be arriving.
When Rory and Logan got back to their suite, Rory was surprised to see their friends in their suits livingroom. They talked for about 15 minutes before the girls made Rory change so they could take her out shopping, they knew Logan had a few things planned, and she would need some fabulous clothing for the events of the next few days.
"is there anything specific we are shopping for?" Rory asks
"Yes you need a gown, a cocktail dress or two, some comfy clothing," Steph says
"What are we doing?" Rory asks
"We have a few places to show up, One being a holiday party for some family friends," Honor says
"Anyone, I know?" Rory asks
"You may know him, His sister-in-law and brother used to own the Independence Inn in Stars Hollow, His name is Bart. His sister-in-law is Mia bass" Honor says
"What, I didn't know Mia had family from California," Rory says
"He actually lives in New York with his son, but his mother is sick, so he decided to have his holiday party where his mom is," Steph says
"It will be nice to meet Mia's brother-in-law. Will his son be around?" Rory asks
"Yes he will be, he's not that much younger than us, he is turning 16 next month," Paris says
"How do you know when his birthday is?" Rory asks
"He goes to school with my cousin, and he's an infamous jerk at his school and in society," Paris says
"Im sure he will be a joy to meet," Rory says
A few hours later the girls had everything they needed plus some stuff for the guys. Over the next 5 days they went to the holiday party for Mr. Bass, and Rory met him and his son Chuck, she was shocked at the difference in attitude between Mia and the bass men, she as also assured that Mia's husband was nothing like his brother or nephew.
They also went to a charity tea for sick kids, A silent auction and Dinner fundraiser for a prep school in the area, A HPG newspaper holiday party and last but not least a red carpet premiere of a movie.
"The guy Milo Ventimiglia who played rocky balboa JR looks a lot like that guy Jess Mariano that was on a partial scholarship at Chilton, Luke the Diner owner in Stars Hollow's Nephew, do you remember him?" Rory asks
"Yes, it really did look a lot like him. I wonder if he is an actor now and that's his Hollywood name" Paris asks
"I wouldn't be surprised, last I heard he took off to California to meet his bio dad so maybe he's an actor now," Steph says
December 22nd, 2006
When the elders got to the hotel they all checked into their suites and settled in and then headed to the restaurant downstairs for brunch, they were surprising Rory.
"I wonder why do we have a private room?" Rory asks
"Because we have a big group," Logan says smirking
"it's been the 9 of us all week, and we have just had a big table before," Rory says
"there are more people today," Christopher says
Rory looks up towards the door in shock seeing the elders all file in with Gigi
"Well hello everyone, I wasn't expecting any of you, but I guess a room for 30 was needed," Rory says
"I think so also, Merry Christmas and surprise. Logan thought it would be good to have a grand family Christmas this year before the new generation comes along" Elias says smiling
"It will surely be a grand Christmas with everyone here, Maybe we can start making this a tradition, well having all of our families together," Rory says happily
"That sounds like it could work, maybe alternate who host's every year," Frankford says
"Sounds great," Mitchum says
After brunch, everyone headed to the Morgan family suite that was decorated with a huge tree and had enough space for everyone to sit comfortably with room to spare.
Over the next few days, everyone spent time together, and they got last minute gifts for each other.
Rory got Logan a tie bar and cufflinks with "Huntzburger" engraved on them and a pair of cufflinks with umbrellas on them.
Logan got Rory a Cartier panther Ring, earrings and necklace set with emeralds, diamonds and onyx.
Paris got Robert a Burberry briefcase.
Robert got Paris a Hermes bag and clutch.
Colin got Honor a Birkin bag.
Finn got a One Time gift of "Using baby Huntz as girl bait."
Honor gave colin something he wasn't expecting.
"Colin, here's your present," Honor says looking a bit freaked out
"What is it why do you look so worried," Colin asks
"Well, it's not something I was expecting to happen. Please just open the box" Honor says
Colin opens the box to find a baby soother, looks under the lid and looks at Honor questioningly
"Honor....." Colin asks
"Your boys work... like super boys" Honor says smirking
Colin lifts the soother and see's the little note at the bottom of the box" thx for knocking me up."
"You mean... rally..." Colin asks smiling
"Ya honeymoon" Honor says
"Yout two," Colin says looking at Logan and Rory "That's apparently contagious and im so freaking happy," Colin says and Honor laughs
"Hey don't blame us, we took no part in it," Logan says
Everyone enjoyed spending their Christmas together and then spent the next few days enjoying their holiday until they all had to head back home, there was a big Huntzburger HPG charity new years ball they had to get ready for.
The wealthiest of the wealthy were invited to the Huntzburger New Years Charity Ball, Logan and Rory had decided that they would organize it, they invited Many high society members from Boston, New York, California and Connecticut, They also invited many celebrities. They decided to split the proceeds between the make-a-wish foundation and Habitat for Humanity. Logan and Rory personally handpicked 10 Reporters to do articles on the event, each Reporter was either nominated by the editor of their college paper, Editor of their paper/magazine or submitted by newly graduated hopeful Reporter's, with each nomination they had to write an article about something current and they had to be within a year post grad.
Yale, Harvard, Columbia, NYU, University of North Carolina and UCLA each had 1 picked nominee. Brown and Yale each had 1 post grad nominee each, There was 1 nominee from an online magazine and another from a small paper in Philly. These 10 candidates had the chance of being hired at an HPG owned Paper or magazine and also would possibly have their story on the event published In the new year's edition of an HPG paper.
1 - Andrea O'connell Current Yale Reporter
2 - Henry Allan Current Harvard Reporter
3 - Jacob Kane Current Columbia Reporter
4 - Josh Oliver Current NYU Reporter
5 - Mikala Lee Current NCU Reporter
6 - June Holiday Current UCLA Reporter
7 - Ali Landing From Brown
8 - Summer Moore From Yale
9 - Kyle Barnes From sunset gazette
10 - Kennedy sin From Philly News
It turns out that all 10 of the stories were so good that each Reporter was offered a job with HPG, the 6 students had a job waiting for them come graduation at several papers for them to choose from, the other 4 reporters were given a list of papers they could choose from.
Summer Moore and Andrea Miller both chose to work at the New York Daily. Logan and Rory decided to take them under their wings and make them their protégé's, Kyle Barnes decided he wanted to work at the Hartford Herold, Mitchum kept an eye on him and the others when visiting the papers they chose. Mitchum liked the way Logan and Rory came up with the idea and decided that they would do it yearly looking for the best talent around.
After New years Rory and Logan spent the next week finishing up what they could for the baby's arrival before they went to work full time, this also gave a week for the construction of the nursery between their offices to be completed and decorated to their taste.
They chose a black and white theme with gold accents, the room was in between Rory and logans offices, each one had a door that went into the nursery, and there was a door that went into the main area that locked automatically upon entry and exit and required a code to gain entry again. They decided to put 2 cribs in the room and a double sized bed if one of them needed a nap during the day.