Christmas Celebrations

Christmas has come and gone another year goes by and soon we'll have to say good bye to 2007 and hello 2008. The party started last Thursday where the Dept had a Tea Time Gathering.

Over the weekend on Sunday had a gathering at my house, the kids loved it with the cake and presents that were given out to them. Lots of games to play which the various uncles cooked up on the spot. Weather played havok again it started out fine and everyone was in the pool but then it started to rain and mad rush out of the pool once everyone had showered and dried themselves, the rain stop !! Ah well back to the food which we had Turkey Breast, Oat Prawns, Fishball, Curry Devil, Otah, Noodles, Chicken, Veggies, Fruits, Cake etc. etc.

Here's one for the album, the missus and me

Monday Christmas Eve was a half day at work and out team decided to have a Christmas Lunch which was made up of KFC and Pizza Hut delivery orders. Here's greedy old me chowing down on some grub. The one of only 3 days that you could actually dress down in the office the others being New Year's Eve and Chinese New Years's Eve.

Our Stats team well most of them anyways, I just managed to run in after setting the auto on the camera, took 3 tries to get it right :)

As usual I went to the Christmas Eve Mass but this year decided to skip the midnight timing and went to the earlier one at Risen Christ, they had a play by the kids a musical actually which was very well done, called Candy Cane Lane. It ended with the message that the Candy Cane (red/white sweet in the shape of a cane) if you invert it it's a 'J' which stands for Jesus.

As with tradition, Christmas I always get to be a kid again and on Christmas Eve once midnight comes, it's time to open the presents, yep I still get them and I'll wait till midnight to open them hee hee .... here's what both me and the wife received from friends and family this year.

Christmas Day was spent at my parents place where the whole family or what you see here is about a third of the family as the rest are either on holiday or have migrated overseas and can only join us with long distance phone calls.

Well with all the festivities and wine and what not have you, had an early night as needed to get back to work on Boxing Day.