Merry Christmas!!

A very Merry Christmas to anyone who reads this blog post!
An early start after a late-ish night of seeing the local pubs with another of my uncles and meeting some people that he knew. I went to the Raglan and got to throw and land a dart on the same board that my dad did when he played at home. Got to play some pool with my uncle and had a nice looking English lad give me some tips for both pool and darts [he was my age too, his dad kept on trying to set us up too... awkward]. We also bumped into some friends of my dads that hadn't seen me in almost 16 years, when they came over to Australia. It was really nice to hear from them and to give them my dads contact details so that they can send some photo's over and generally keep in contact.

Christmas went well, we headed over to Colin's mother-in-laws place for Christmas lunch. Paul and Heather dropped us off on their way to their daughters in-laws. It was really good seeing Lyndsey and Mia (I've got photo's and I'll take more tomorrow). Colin cooked lunch, we had a Turkey breast for the meat eaters, Quorn for the vegetarians. Carrots, sprouts, potatoes, swede, parsnips, broccoli and cheese as well as gravy and bread sauce. Very well cooked with flaming brandy pudding for dessert. We moved into the sitting room and had some tea/coffee/remaining alcohol from our glasses as well as some after dinner chocolate mints. More people came over and we proceeded to exchange gifts; Colin, Lyndsey and Mia gave me a matching amber earring set to go with the necklace and Lyndseys mum gave me some bracelets as well as Heather rapping up the tops we chosen in Canterbury. Julie had also gotten me a black roll neck top as well. My bag is now very close to being full, I could close it without opening the extra space, I'll need it though for when I do leave. Boxing day will be at Pauls from the afternoon onwards.