Christmas

Its been a while since my last post.

Leading up to Christmas I was pretty busy with work but somehow managed to get my Christmas shopping done.

Christmas Eve, we went over to Christine's and had a wonderful roast chicken, potatoes to die for and great stuffing. A friend of Shan's and her mum, Deirdre, was there so we had delightful company. We drank, ate and laughed ourselves silly. It was a great night.

Christmas day came. We prepared our Turkey for dinner and got ready to make breakfast for when Christine came round. Christine showed up with a tonne of presents of which we were not expecting. Some were from Shan, but due to her broken foot could not bring them home so left them with her mum. We opened a few before breakfast. What a haul! Its all a bit of a blur now, so i can't recall in what order we got things, so I'll list them all later. One we did receive before breakfast was a blender which helped us created the nicest pancakes ever for breakfast.

Upon finishing breakfast, we sat by the tree and exchanged gifts. I got shan some mittens and beanie (not a touke, you crazy Canadians) with a pirate skull motif, two books and an Ipod Nano (blue colouring). Shan got me Guitar Hero 2 (joy!) with the extra controller so we can play coop and head to head, BBC production of Pride and Prejudice (of which we have already watched, excellent 6 stars!), and the wifiest gifts you ever did see, socks, underwear and a jumper, all of which i desperately needed and was glad to receive. Christine got us the aforementioned blender, a rice cooker (to alleviate rice debates between shannon and myself) and a poker set (which I've been wanting) with dogs playing poker motif, which got us quoting Simpson's for most of the night.

Rob stopped by for a few hours in the afternoon. We played some guitar hero 2 and a large amount of Texas Hold'em. After a while Rob took his leave to go to another Christmas party, thanks for coming by Rob, shame you missed the Pavlova.

On to the Turkey Dinner. We cooked the Turkey for over 4 hours! It was so juicy. We had cauliflower, roast potatoes, stuffing, the works! The gravy was perfect, the Turkey succulent. The meal, excellent. We stuffed ourselves and the went to the couch. And then proceeded to watch the first half of Pride and Prejudice. As that went along we had Pavlova and were much sated.

Sadly shan's leg started to play up and we had to take her to St. Pauls Hospital. We were quite worried that it was a blood clot in her leg due to her broken foot, but the next day it turned out to be ok. I won't say more as I'm sure Shan will relate it on her blog.

So apart from that, Christmas was perfect.