It’s Christmassss!

Mary & Tony kindly invited us to their house for Christmas. We weren’t due to fly back to the UK until Boxing Day & so otherwise would have spent Christmas Day on our own. Most of their family was there & everyone made us feel really welcome.

Christmas dinner was slightly different to what we were used to, since turkey is the traditional Thanksgiving meal & so tends not to be served at Christmas. Tony had prepared smoked Beef Tenderloin & Mary did Roast Ham with a sweet glaze. This was accompanied with potatoes in a mushroom soup sauce, sprouts, beans, sweetcorn, & fresh rolls. Desert included home-made mint chocolate cake &, as usual, everything tasted really good.

We all got really nice presents. Cheryl got a pearl necklace that Mary had made (she used to have a jewelry business) & some scrapbooking stuff, I got a set of technical drawing pens, & Beth got an amazing decorated egg. Mary said that this was the only egg that she had decorated as a present this year. It was painted pink with pink sparkly glitter in a scroll pattern over the lower part of the egg & was mounted on a glass stand. The opening to the egg was framed with purple ‘jewels’ & pearls, & the inside was painted a glittery light teal colour with a picture of an angel on the ‘back’ wall.