G'day everyone,
Gloria I can so picture your house with all the decorations, I bet Jack is having a ball doing it all. Great idea of the gift vouchers rather then get some rubbish that won't be looked at again after Christmas Day. I loved the Barnes & Nobles book stores when we were in America, the stand out one was the one in Boulder, could have stayed in that store for weeks
Glenda I can also picture your house and can hear you saying 'its so pretty'. It must be lovely to come home to a lit up friendly home.
Suz wow that was quite something when you got married to have this instant family of children, grand children and great grand children and a white Christmas
As you probably gathered, I am 'down under' and we are in for a very hot Christmas These days our Christmas is rather low key, we have 2 children and 3 grand daughters, our daughter lives in Melbourne and our son lives in our hometown Adelaide. As a Christmas gift dh and I have booked a holiday home for all of us halfway from our house and halfway from our daughters place, we will both have to travel about 5 hours. It will be the first time the 3 grandgirls will have met other then over the net camera.
It should be fun.
It was with some amazement that we saw pictures in the paper of the attempted coup in Manilla by tanks crashing their way through the Peninsula Hotel. It was the very hotel we stayed in when we were in Manilla for Alan's work. Knowing exactly where it is and the security that was in place, like 12 armed guards at the entrance, just goes to show that when there is a will there is a way.
Had a lovely bike ride along the foreshore this morning, the day is not going to be quite so lovely with a predicted temperature of 38 degrees (around 100 F) it was in the low twenties early this morning, just perfect.
Hope you all have a great weekend.
Cheers
Maria