Christmas and New Year

Well, the holidays are over now. But we definitely had a good one! We got back from Spain on Christmas Eve to have a nice relaxing evening with Andrew and Lisa eating Indian food and watching a movie. For our compromise of when to open gifts, we decided to open a couple on Christmas Eve and the rest on Christmas morning. We had a surprising amount of gifts to open, considering we are in another country. Thank-you to everyone who sent us cards and/or gifts. It was such a nice surprise getting things from Canada and very much appreciated.

Christmas dinner was excellent. Troë perfected her gravy making this time, with a little help from Lisa. We all sat on the floor around our coffee table for dinner (as we only have two chairs), we even had Christmas crackers. It was nice. We were a little home-sick, but that's to be expected. As there was only the two of us eating Turkey (Andrew and Lisa made Tofu), we had tons left for sandwiches for the next few days. It was a good thing that Andrew and Lisa arrived just in time to replenish Troë's "Miracle Whip" stock.

After Boxing Day, Lisa and Andrew went on to Brighton and then London, and we relaxed for a couple more days before going to Teignmouth again to see John and Ronnie for New Years. It was a nice visit, as it always is.

We had a quiet New Years... we had planned to go out in Teignmouth with John and TA and John's cousin Flik (who's possibly kind of Troë's cousin too) and another friend of theirs. We started off with a few drinks at John's, but apparently John can't hold his booze well and he got, *cough*, kinda sick, so we just stayed in. It was still pretty fun. There was a hectic racing around to find a way to open the champagne just before midnight, but we managed to get it open and poured with 30 seconds to spare.

It was a nice trip, we like going to see them; and perhaps the next time we go, we may have another family member joining us (saRah?)