Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from down under! Hope your day was as good as mine ;-)
Started off with a little bucks fizz between the 4 of us as Matt had to work (the boat's pretty much booked up for the next 2 weeks) .

We'd already agreed that we wouldn't do prezzies until Matt came home from work but we all had a little something that had been sent from back home (Thanks Luce for my foxy prezzie !) . Then it was time for Oscar's treat and a walk on beach. Adey & Lara hadn't been for a proper walk on the beach yet so we went to Kewarra which (for me personally) is the nicest of the northern beaches along here. It's really long so you can see Clifton Beach and Palm Cove to the left and some dodgy looking mangroves which just spell out crocs for me to the right ! So with the aim of completely tiring out Oscar so he's a good boy for the day we were running up and down the beach with him (Santa hats included for us all including Oscar) which to begin with wasn't too bad as even though it was starting to get hot it was cloudy still so not too bad. But then the clouds did start to burn away by the time we'd walked back towards the entrance and where the stinger nets were. So as it was Christmas Day we jumped in the sea and Oscar had the best time of all of us really playing with a couple of other dogs in there too, leaving me to chat in the sea to their tanned, smiley, hunky, Aussie owner (without even needing Adey's offer that he pretends to hit me and I pretend to drown so I can be rescued by him) which was a nice little pressie in itself ;-)

The rest of the day was itself pretty much a usual Christmas (apart from the lounging in the pool with beers and spraying on sun cream) , loads of food, bowls of sweets from the British Lolly Shop, chips, dips, card games, beers, Pimms, drinking games, dips in the pool etc etc etc until Matt got back about 4:30. We then did pressies - I've got a surfing lesson from everyone here which I can't wait to do which I've just gotta sort out at some point - thanks guys xxxxx




Then onto proper food - prawns to start (poor old Matt had eaten about 2kilos worth on the boat in the day but was a good sport and tucked in to the rest !) then steak, sausages and salad for mains. Lots of phone calls home but thankfully not too much homesickness - I really expected to but because it just dóesn't seem like Christmas at all, it really felt like just another day and I was lucky cos I got to speak to my parents, sister, grampy and auntie all at the same time! I don't think I could ever get used to Christmas like this - is just too weird - I mean Santa's dressed up in a big thick suit for gawd''s sake - it's not right that you're sunbaking all day!




All in all a great day and am now pooped so gonna go to bed. Merry Christmas ho ho ho xxxxx