Happy Christmas

we’ve just had an excellent christmas day

it started at 7am with stocking presents in our room

then we skyped my mum, brother and jacqui. here’s a family portrait

esther got me a voucher for a tobacco pipe as we both find them really funny. jane wasn’t sure if i’d actually want one so decided a voucher was the best approach. i’ll cash it in soon (but don’t worry i’m not going to smoke anything, it’ll be strickly a fashion item

here’s one of jane’s presents. it’s a teapot teacup which is quite popular over here

then we walked over to the local presbyterian church for their xmas morning service (our church doesn’t have a christmas service because it meets in a school)

then we whizzed home for a spot more unwrapping

then we went to long bay for our dinner in the restaurant there

it was a buffet and great

then we went to the beach and the girls had a swim. i’ll not lie and say it was really warm because it wasn’t. and there was a bit of a wind too

i went in up to my knees, and i have worn my jandals all day including whilst driving the car

here’s a christmas sand man built by kezia instead of a christmas snow man

and its christmas so of course all the pohutukawa trees are in bright red bloom

the beach was really busy (by kiwi standards)

here are the instructions for the girl’s scooters. don’ use scooter at night.

and don’ think that using an apostrophe means you can miss out letters

we didn’t watch any telly today, but if we had we would have noticed that there are no commercial adverts on television on christmas day, or easter sunday. how quaint is that !

anyway, after doing some more unwrapping we went round to mike and julia’s house where we had a lovely couple of hours chatting with various people and the girls had another swim, this time in their pool. and we player boule (which they pronounced ‘bool-ay’ for some reason)