Christmas crackers?

Thanks to Karen Mullen, I was introduced to something new.....Christmas crackers.  I guess it is tradition to open at the Christmas dinner rabble or at parties around the holidays.  We found them at a supermarket and got them to open when we got back to the hotel on New Year's Eve.  As you can see we had fun playing with what we discovered inside!

 Here is a link about Christmas crackers...pretty interesting...and a new tradition for us!  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_cracker