I actually enjoy it a lot, myself. Growing up in the city, you were a little limited in what all you could do, but my dad was a big outdoor guy. He loves to fish and he had a cabin upstate that belonged to my grandparents and we went there during the summer and sometimes over Christmas.
Oh, she is. She gets excited because her birthday is at the end of November, so its not so close to Christmas that she gets double-gifted, but close enough that It seems like two months full of presents.