Christmas Day

It’s been a while since I had a chance to blog, so I will update you all by different dates rather than by a long big blog, so here goes Christmas day.

Myself and Alan spend Christmas day up at his sister and brother in laws house in Raumati (about 45 mins drive away) all of Alan’s immediate family and nearly all of Kim’s immediate family (he has a brother in Singapore) was there, a grand total of 15 in all. But that did not deter the ever organised Susan, she had various dishes tasked out to everybody who was coming and she was up earlier sorting the place out and doing prep of the yummy salad and spuds and of course the old bird itself !!!

Loads of wine and beer was consumed but not to much by me as I was driving, we ate too much food as you do on Christmas day and we got loads of presents. I got this really amazing screen divider of the Mona Lisa, but I am going to take off the hinges and mount the three pieces on the wall instead very cool, from his parents I got a statue of an elephant which I totally love and I have called Grant, I also got two bracelets, an elephant hand bag and other bits and bobs from them, from his sister and her family I got a white strappy top, while I had wanted and was going to get myself after Christmas, so I was very pleased about that ! From my family we do a secret Santa thing and my sister Theresa got me this year and I got a beautiful silver frame and a cast iron frame too. So as you can see I was very spoilt this year !!!

We had a great Christmas day, my third in New Zealand and after being home just a few months ago I was very homesick from my family but it was still a great Christmas.