We had a wonderful weekend full of excitement and romance. Ahhhhh. Isn't it lovely? First up was our IT Christmas party. The food at work was superb with a Mexican theme and yummy salsa to eat with corn chips. We also did our Christmas present game and we got plenty of loot for Toby to fill up his stocking. The pub was... very pubby. But we had a wee quiz round and it was good to catch up with people and their Christmas plans.
Wee Toby stayed with Grandy and Gramps on Friday night but he might have been missing our company a little more than usual. However, bright and early Saturday morning we popped around to collect him and head out to the swimming pool. It was assessment day. And, Toby swam like a machine and the instructor never even asked for a second opinion from another assessor. Toby is now a penguin and will be swimming lengths of the pool next term/year. We were so proud of him.
From there we went straight to the NZTE Kids Christmas party organised admirably by Carol from work. Toby had a ball and I saw one of the funniest things I'll see all year. Mike dressed up as Santa to hand out the present. Some of the wee kids may have been fooled but we knew Toby would see right through it. So we has prepped him to play it cool. Sure enough, Toby let out a big exclamation of "Look! Here's Santa". Right on cue, like the good actor we asked him to be.
But, the funny event was about to unfold. Or, should I say, undo? As Mike was halfway through the present giving, he leant out to hand a present to a child, and his Santa pants fell right down. I missed it, but caught the action afterwards as Santa "Ho ho ho'ed" his way through trying to pull up his pants without falling into a giggling mass on the floor. I laughed so much.
Turns out Mike has missed the drawstring on the trousers when he got dressed. Lucky he stuffed that cushion up his jersey and it also didn't fall out. A Santa giving birth in front of the children may have scarred them permanently.
After the party, we went back to Queensgate for the Santa photo we get every year. Toby looks very handsome in it. I did a little more Christmas shopping before heading home to get Toby ready for his sleepover at Christine and John's place. Dropping him off there was a little fraught as he decided he didn't want to stay there. But Christine understood completely and diverted him easily. We drove into town and checked in to the Intercontinental and got ready for dinner. We walked down to Siem Riep and had a lovely meal before going to watch the Time Traveller's Wife in the Gold Lounge. Mike loved the movie adaptation of the book and I thought it was quite good too.
Back to the hotel and asleep by midnight. But this was my third midnight sleep in a row and I was pretty tired when we woke up on Sunday morning.
We met Christine, Tom and Toby at the Thorndon Fair and wandered around there for a while before heading home where I fell into a coma for a few hours. But once I woke up I felt ok and we cooked up some yummy Indian food for dinner and Mike went and got Ma. They opened a 1999 bottle of red wine and said it was pretty good! It was the Villa Maria $41 bottle. So it was probably the pick of the bunch of 1999 bottles we have left.
So, it was a grand weekend. Tenth anniversary celebrated. Toby passed swimming (it only took 18 months or so). Thorndon Fair visited.
Wee Tyler had her party yesterday so I hope that went well. I am sure I'll hear about that later on. Now, our week ahead is to prepare for Toby's party. Should be ok. Presents and cake remain to sort out.
Love,
Angela
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