The Christmas Eve with 40C

Hi,

The Christmas carols at the local high school were fabulous.  We had front row seats and the singers were very good.  I was in fine form, singing carols loudly (and poorly - but hopefully no one could hear my tuneless singing).  Everything was free - lollies, sausages, cupcakes, bouncy castle.

Christmas Eve was one to remember.  We walked over to a local park with Tyler's bike, a netball and tennis racquets around 10am.  Karen said it was hot and I said it must be about 30C.  It seems my temperature gauge has got a bit wayward since living in Wellington and anything over 25C is just "hot".  It was an amazing 41C here in Sydney.  So, yes - it was "hot" in anyone's language.  I gave Karen a hard time for taking us out in 40 degree heat to play tennis, even though when I thought it was 30C it was perfectly fine.  Hahahah.

We then nipped out to Karen's friend's house to collect eggs and check on their chooks.



Gathering eggs from Liz and Paul's chooks

We found their cleaner cleaning their house.  Well, that was what he told us.  We hope he was their cleaner.  He also seemed happy that we were just checking the chickens!

Toby also jumped on  the trampoline for a while.


Jump!

In the afternoon, Scott's mother, her husband Len and Grandma arrived.  After settling them in and having dinner (Aidan - you may be interested to know that Mike and I accidentally ate Toby and Karen's food - it's not just you that loses your meal around us to ravenous Gilberts - they had to eat something else entirely) we walked around to some friends' house and sat on their front lawn while a thunderstorm lit up the surrounding sky with lightening. 

After the drinks on the lawn, we walked around to a local street that decks out the houes with amazing lights.  Of course, the celestial light show was still happening as well.

Back home to put the kids to bed.  They all went to sleep without any bother.  Mike and I followed suit.  Howver we were woken up at midnight by Karen who had got upset at the size of the presents in Toby's stocking compared to her children.  She rummaged around in cupboards and before you knew it, Toby's stocking was just as full as her own children's stockings.  My sister loves my son!  We're so lucky!  It is a bit hard to co-ordinate these things when you travel at Christmas.

Christmas morning was such fun!  The kids woke at a respectable 6am.


Just starting



Watching the chaos



Front row seats



Look what I got from Toby - can't wait to use this voucher

Scotty is putting together toys - don't think he has finished yet!  Hahahah.  We're having roast pork - an amazing leg of pork is in the oven.  I opened the door to get a better look and apparently this may have ruined the crackling.  Oops.  I'll let you know.
I hope your Christmas is a lot of fun!  Missing you all. 
Love,
Angela