Christmas morning came and so did "Santa"... Marc put all Ev's presents into a Santa sack and placed it on the wardrobe in the morning so that Ev could have a "traditional" Chrissy ;) When Marc went to the bathroom, Ev put all his presents on the bed for him to see and so the unwrapping began...
Marc got some running shorts, dvd's (in case we got bored), a bracelet, and "The Kop" Liverpool book and a Steven Gerard Autobiography book.
Ev got a photo frame that she pointed out in one of the shops in Melbourne, some green dangley earrings, Finding Nemo dvd (which we thoroughly enjoyed watching), and a friend for Tigeroo (who we got at the Auzzie zoo) we named the new stuffed cat Chrissy - not to mention the "Dolphin experience" from Mornington Peninsular.
Now that we were awake and ready for the day ahead we had a fry up - haven't had many of these recently and boy was it tasty... we tried to contact the family again but now there was no reception :( so we decided to go for a walk along the river bank. This was a good idea as we were so full from brunch that we weren't sure when we'd get started on our feast. As we were walking along the riverbank we saw that there were some big dark grey clouds looming in the distance - perfect timing for us as just as we got to the furthest distance that we were prepared to walk the heavens opened up and the rain came a pouring! Turns out that this was one of the coldest and wettest Christmas' since the 1920's - we have been reassurred that normally it is 30+ degrees with glorious sunshine ;)
When we made it back to the cottage we lit the fire (as it was overcast people wouldn't notice the smoke) cuddled on the sofa and watched Finding Nemo. Around 5ish we decided to get a move on with the feast so Marc started up the BBQ - we were hoping for better weather and maybe a barby on the beach but since it was raining and we didn't have an oven we would have to reheat our cooked chicken and do some roasties on the BBQ. This worked well enough and round 7.30 we started our feast.
Don't think we mentioned that we saw an add in one of the tourist leaflets that if you book into the Kalimna Woods you get a free bottle of Champers with the clipping! Bonus, so we opened that up with our meal and popped some Christmas crackers As we were saying earlier we really bought a lot of food and we were so stuffed from the veg, potatoes and chicken, dessert... not to mention the drinks we had on the go as well.
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