Merry Christmas

Hey Everyone,

We hope you all had a good Christmas day! We hired a house with a big garden and pool for the 40 or so people we had to dinner. The Hispanic world celebrate Christmas different to English and they start on Christmas eve with a big get together so that's where my entry starts.

We were preparing most of the day fruit salads and cold meat in a half arsed manner because that's all we could manage. The last few days have been draining to say the least. We have a wonderful son who is well behaved but the late nights and early starts are starting to blacken the bags around my eyes.

Anyway once the food was done and we were showered and dressed we set off in the car for the 15 minute drive to the house. The garden was big with tables set and there was a pool at the back, the house comprised of a big salon with kitchen area, bathroom and two small bedrooms. For Christmas dinner each family brings a cold platter and it is shared out between everyone.

We also had bought a 50 litre barrel of beer that was positioned nicely next to the barbecue. For the next five hours we ate lots, drunk more and danced a bit. Florencia even videoed me dancing with her auntie. At 12 o'clock we lit some Chinese lanterns which for me was worth a thousand fireworks. With my experience of pulling pints I took charge of making sure the beer was flowing and by the end of the night I had transferred most of the beer in the barrel to my belly and was out for the count.






08:30 I was awake and shortly up and watching cartoons with Landon. Today was going to be tough so I drank a gallon of water and tried to come round a bit. Before long everyone was up and ready to go again so once more we jumped in the car and I drove to the venue. People were in the pool when we got there and I dived straight in only to find out it wasn't deep at all.

Before long the BBQ was lit and the chilled draught beer was refreshing me once more. Landon joined me in the pool twice during the afternoon and then we sat down for the lovely juicy succulent slices of cow mmmmmmm.

More swimming followed and even more beer and then it was time to keep out the sun. I had thoroughly enjoyed every part of the celebration and now I feel knackered.