We start celebrating Christmas Eve with a family dinner of Pasta (Usually homemade, but we had to do with Lattina Fresh this time) followed by the opening of our Kris Kringle presents. The deal is to pick a name out of the hat and buy the worst/stupidest present you can find ($10 price limit) Lots of laughs and fun. Then you have to guess who bought for you. You also have to wear, use and otherwise display your present.
Later we wandered around the caravan park checking out all the decorated vans and planning the ultimate Christmas decorations for next year – we’ll have the best van by far!! We continued our ongoing game of 500 (parents against kid’s – unfortunately Colin and I are getting done. We blame it on the fact that we are half asleep by that time at night)
Christmas morning began at 6.30am with the obligatory opening of presents. Well Rachel and Johanna did, Zac and Heidi were still asleep. After a quick walk on the beach (and a quick surf by Colin – and yes it was a quick surf) Zac and Heidi had surfaced, more presents and then pancakes, berries and icecream for breakfast.
We sunscreened up and headed back to the beach for a bit. Sadly the surf was disappointing but the die hards had a go anyway.
Lunch saw the continuation of our Salad Fest – Prawn and mango, and Salmon and avocado followed by the usual desserts.
After recovering from lunch we headed a few kilometres up the road and had some fun at a river flat near the beach.
Today was a special day for many reasons, the main one though was that Heidi turned 18. Now we have two adult children – how old we are feeling but also how proud to see before us two wonderful young adults. What a good job we have done! Dinner was chosen especially for Heidi and reflected two of her passions, chocolate (fondue) and gelati.
And now to finish off the day we are about to play a new card game, Mhing (thanks Derek), hopefully Colin and I will fair better at this one. At least it will save us the indignity of going out the back door in 500.
For the record:
Whose body is this?
Sunburnt nose, sore shoulders, back and arms (also sunburnt), Chaffing on thighs, graze on top of both knees, skin off top of foot and cut between toes.
No, it is not Colin!! Zac is carrying on the family tradition of battle wounds from surfing.
Pain is good!