It's a day early but I thought I would just drop in to say Happy Boxing Day. We both hope all had a great Christmas with friends and family.
Our week was good. Lloyd and I were the guests at his friend Dave's annual gathering on Friday afternoon at lunch time. Lots of great food to be had, for sure. Lloyd had to work that night so it was home early so he could have a nap. I met up with Brenda around 4:00 and we headed into town to finish up some last minute shopping. Being it was a fairly mild and clear night, there was no rush to get back home, so we found ourselves a little coffee place and had coffee and Bailey's while we waited for Meghan to join us. She was taking a break from laundry!
Saturday morning we were thinking of going into town for breakfast but Lloyd decided he'd just as soon stay home so I went into town early. I had left a couple of errands from the night before as I knew we were planning on going in on Saturday and you know what they say about the best laid plans!
Everything was open really early. I left home at 7:00 and was back again by 9:30. Now that all the appropriate shopping had been done, let the holidays begin!
We were invited to join the VanGaals for their annual Christmas Eve celebrations. There were, I think ,17 or 18 people there and a great time was had by all. What a lovely celebration to be a part of.
Sunday morning, Christmas Day, got started a little slow as we were out till midnight the night before. Seems we just can't party like we used to! But no worries, we had all day to prepare for dinner guests. We had invited our friends Jens and Linda for Christmas dinner. Jens if from Denmark and we thought it might be interesting to find out just what a traditional Danish Christmas dinner would consist of. Fortunately the internet was a wealth of information, so our menu was planned:
Roast Duck and/or Roast Pork (we cooked both)
Two kinds of potatoes - plain boiled and boiled, caramelized in sugar
Red cabbage
(We added green beans and turnip to the veg mix)
Very creamy rice pudding with almonds
Needless to say the meal was a success. Jens was totally blown away that we would go to the effort of doing the research and then actually preparing the meal. He was very appreciative of our efforts and that made it all worth while.
Patti was in London, due to arrive home on Christmas eve. They almost didn't make it due to mechanical issues with their plane. Fortunately they were able to come up with a solution.They arrived a few hours late but at least they got here. There would have been some pretty disappointed passengers if they hadn't. We talked to them on face time Christmas morning and everyone seems to have had a great time and they were getting ready for her dad's family to come over for dinner. She's back to London tomorrow (the 27th) so we may see James if there's any seats on flights heading this way. She can drop him off at Pearson on her way to Heathrow and hope he gets a connection! We're keeping our fingers crossed!
Happy Boxing Day everyone - have to leave now as I have eggs to deliver this morning... no time for slacking off!
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