Santa delayed by Canada Post/Royal Mail apparently so special delivery has been arranged for January...will report on findings later...
Christmas morning, after Shaun (yes! I know?!) feeding the kitties extra cat food (definately Christmas or it was the only way to shut them up as he had a bit of a hangover!) we made calls to the family - a few sniffles on this side of the Atlantic were heard....
Thanks to Gary (Shaun's brother) we have physical evidence that the dog was still alive and driving Shaun's Mum nuts with the squeaky ball!
We were verk kindly invited to Mum's other cousin Val's house for Christmas dinner. Mr R lost the toss and drove and we picked up Yvonne and Martin on the way and stopped off to meet Yvonne's daughter Lauren and her family and I got my first taste of eggnog with rum (ummm - jury's still out on that one - logically should be lovely (milk, sugar, alcohol) etc but still not sure..)
Then Val's for Christmas dinner which was superb, turkey, ham and all the trimmings, including some canadian specials - yam and sweet potatoes with candied walnuts v. yummy! Bad thing was that sprouts have made it across the pond - curses! Shaun ate mine...
3 types of pudding, including trifle so Mr R was v. happy - and we even got doggy bags to take home (ham sandwich with Branston pickle...mmmm!).
Post dinner was spent on the Nintendo Wii - unfair home advantage due to Ashley (Val's daughter) and her boyfriend, Anthony being waaay too good, especially on the bowling, althought there was some serious rallys going on in the tennis game between Mr R and Val! I got a tinsy bit obsessed with the golf game but eventually Mr R managed to prise the Wii nunchucks from my cramped hands and gave some one else a go!
I feel a Wii might be on next years Santa list....
Eventually had to leave but it was a great day and lovely to have a whole new family!
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