Merry Christmas!

Hope everyone who reads this is having/has had a wonderful Christmas! It has been a very different one for us, but enjoyable nonetheless.

Because of the mild weather, it's been a bit difficult to get in the Christmas spirit. However, on Christmas Eve we made a trip to the grocery store and picked up the ingredients for our traditional Christmas Morning Wife Saver. This is a breakfast dish containing bread, ham, cheese, and an egg mixture, that both of our families happen to eat on Christmas morning. So after a lovely supper with Gai and Jon, we cranked up some Christmas tunes and put together our Wife Saver!

It's currently 5:30 pm on Christmas day, and we've had quite a lovely day. Jon and Gai had 15 people, including Brin and I, over to open presents and have a Christmas morning brunch. Because Brin and I don't really have any extra room in our bags, we ended up doing our Chistmas shopping for each other at the grocery store! Brin got me dried mango and white chocolate (two things I love!) and a new pair of tweezers; I got Brin a couple of her favourite chocolate bars and a variety pack of cereal (Brin loves cereal and yogurt but we never buy cereal because it's too expensive!) We were both quite happy with our Christmas gifts - it's amazing that food can bring such joy when you're travelling! Jon and Gai also gave us a box of chocolate and candies, as well as a homemade box full of other chocolates and goodies! Now for brunch: it was a wonderful meal of Christmas Morning Wife Saver (the best part of course), fruit, yogurt, croissants, waffles, sausage, bacon, and dried fruit marinated and cooked in orange juice (we're going to bring this one back to Canada with us!).

After brunch most of the guests left (which was mostly family - their children and children's partners) and Brin and I settled into a wonderful afternoon of eating chocolate and candy and reading! We're not quite sure what the evening has in store yet, but there's sure to be some warmed up Wife Saver!

Oh and did I mention the weather yet? It's been raining on and off all day, and about 15 degrees. Not exactly your hot, tropical, Christmas day!