Days 2 and 3 Christmas celebrations

On Christmas eve it was overcast, drizzly & cool. I had not reckoned on this in midsummer and only had a cardi with short sleeves so I wore my multi-coloured water proof all day! We all met up at Leila's in George for lunch. We being the four of us, Ed's mom, Mik & Ray, Chareen and family and Saskia and family. Leila's being an old house on a permaculture farm where the food was freshly cooked as we were ready to eat. We took our own wine and bought soft drinks for those who wanted them. The delicious 3 course meal cost R150 per person.

While we were enjoying our meal, two couples came who also wanted to eat but as the place was fully booked (can only take about 24 people), they were ushered into the adjacent bedroom where each couple sat on one of the two single beds and a table for the meal was put between the beds!

It was a unique experience and the food was great. Much fun and laughter was shared.
After our meal, Chareen and Craig treated us all to tea at the golf course club house. A lovely day.

Christmas morning after church, we drove the short distance to Pete and Mim’s for breakfast at 10. And what a breakfast! Smoked salmon, baked ham and wonderful bread not forgetting the bubbly with some of us drinking black velvets and others, bucks fizz.

The only ones, sadly, missing from our immediate families were Sean, Lynda and Senna and Terry, Traer and Nya. Also there were Esme and her daughter, Candice. We had done a secret Santa with each person only having to buy a present for one person and nobody knowing who had given the present. We exchanged gifts after breakfast amid a lot of hilarity.

Dinner was not served until 4 as we enjoyed breakfast a bit too much. What a feast it was. It was as if Pete, Mim, Warren and Sandy had been cooking all week. Two chickens, each with a different stuffing and lamb with garlic and rosemary all cooked on the braai plus an assortment of salads and veg that were out of this world. Then there was the pud and brandy custard, pavlova and trifle.

Mike conducted a general knowledge quiz of the “oldies” versus the “young ‘uns”. I am pleased to report that the winners were the oldies!

It was a lovely day for catching up on news and just enjoying each others’ company.

We left the car there and walked home as we had all been enjoying the array of bubbly and wines.