Monday, December 23, 2013

Sunday 22 December - Christmas family dinner








Current location: Erskineville, Sydney
11.11pm, Chatting and listening to Christmas music. This morning we drove up from Wollongong after a beautiful wedding and arrived back in Sydney ready to get festive! We spent the day wrapping presents, watching Christmas films (Love Actually and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation), prepping for dinner and making mulled wine. The house smelt amazing!
At about 5pm, we went around to our neighbour Susan's house, for a little Christmas get-together for everyone on our street. It's such a lovely little community and was ace to get to know our neighbours a little better. In a very strange twist, Rochy and our neighbour Elaine discovered they were actually related! Elaine's Sri Lankan grandmother was the sister of Rochy's Sri Lankan great-grandmother! Talk about a small world!
After that revelation, we went back inside to finish getting ready and wait for out guests to arrive. There was 11 of us for dinner (all the Sydney family) so we decided to eat outside as there was more room and it was such a hot day! 
As we all sat down and tucked into mulled wine and a hot Christmas roast (chicken, nut roast, stuffing, roast potatoes, parsnips, carrot, swede, Brussels sprouts), I realised why Aussies don't tend to do traditional Christmas dinner... it was so hot! We had such a fun time though, with a Christmas quiz (Sha, Bree and I won!), mince pies, a lot of festive music, and then we cracked open the port. I'm definitely feeling festive now! 



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