Happy Christmas Eve.
As typical males, we'd left the bulk of our Christmas shopping to today - the day before Christmas. With today being Auntie Deb's birthday and there also being the urgent need to finish the gingerbread house, it was going to be a crazy day.
We got up early, wrapped our birthday gift for Auntie Deb and shopped for the ingredients that we needed for the breakfast that we were cooking this morning (again, typical males). As per tradition, just as we were about to turn on the stove top the power went out. Regardless of the lack of power, we charged on cooking french toast with bacon, banana and maple syrup.
Following breakfast, Andrew and Jonno headed out to run some errands and do some Christmas shopping while I stayed at home to finish the gingerbread house. Two hours later Andrew and Jonno drove in with no christmas presents (they'd spent two hours at the butcher sorting through an order).
Pete and Des and their family arrived for a short gathering for Auntie Deb's birthday, and they were shortly followed in by the Scorziell's. These families didn't stay long as everyone had something to do to prepare for tomorrow.
Once everyone had left, the three of us and Lisa headed to the Bendover for the fourth weekend in a row. Previous trips to the bendover had proven to be quite fruitless which meant that none of us was thrilled about being there again. As mentioned in previous blogs, it is not uncommon to find mountains of clothing at the bendover. What we haven't mentioned is fact fact that you can actually dive through the second-hand clothing.
Once we'd finished diving through the clothing, Andrew had found a couple of outrageous shirts and the Christmas shopping was complete. We headed back home where we wrapped our presents, had dinner and finished the gingerbread house.
Alex
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