Christmas in January?!

Happy Christmas! No wait, that can’t be right…except that today really was Christmas day again, at least in Pam and Geoff’s house! Pam put up the Christmas tree and decorated their house yesterday in preparation for Christmas in January today. We went around after the boys were finished at holiday club to have a Christmas lunch with them and open presents…it was fun! (Especially fun since Pam and Geoff had spoiled us with purchaes from the UK). After the present opening we ate a delicious lunch of lasagne, chicken korma, brussel sprouts (for Nick), carrots and jacket potatoes.


Then Maddison needed to get to a birthday party so Pam and I sneakily left the men in the house with a BIG hint (okay, it was more than a hint – it even crossed beyond the bounds of suggestion) that they should wash the dishes while we took Maddy to the party. Pam and I weren’t really intending to stay for long, but the birthday girl’s mom offered us a cup of tea. We stayed and chatted for about an hour and a half! Meanwhile Nick, Geoff and the boys were wondering what had happened to us, but they had solved the world’s problems in the meantime. We left their place at about 3.30 and passed Nick’s Wednesday afternoon guitar pupil on the way home – he had been waiting and eventually gave up, but turned back when he saw us. What followed was nearly two hours of loud electric guitar. The kids around Piccolo thought it was awesome; I was apologizing to everyone for the noise!