Monday, December 25, 2006

Christmas day and eve

Christmas tea at Nan and Barry's, they have a lovely home in Atawhai about 5 minutes from our house. What we didn't plan on was dinner outside, duh!!! Smart people we are, we didn't put on any sunblock (me thinking we'd be eating indoors by the warm fire) so we sought shade at every trip to the buffet as the sun has been very hot today.



Here's our xmas buffet, it was full of yummies, including our salad. See everyone clamoring for it??







I could not for the life of me get a picture of Nan and Barry together at the same time ... so this one of their backs will have to do. There's Barry (he's got the hat on) and Nan, bareshouldered and taking the full weight of the hot sun.





After a few hours with the Nan-clan we set off to head out to the beach to relax and digest for awhile. Apparently the tradition is to keep eating and go to another home for dinner. DINNER?? We freaked at the thought and then ate light at lunch in preparation for the rest of the day.
We got to the beach and it was packed, as packed as I've ever seen it. But that sort of packed is not the same as packed in America so we found ourselves some room and sat on our blanket. I people watched and Don napped for an hour.















I know it's really hard to see, but near lower center of this picture is the cutest little toddler in his swim outfit and he could not wait to get out of his stroller and into the surf. You can barely see him, next to mom's outstretched hand.



See, not so packed. But nice and warm and a lovely naptime.



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