Re: Christmas

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Because we have heat at Christmas here we sometimes celebrate Christmas again in July here and call it "Christmas in July". It is becoming quite popular particularly in the mountain areas. It attracts a lot of tourists to the areas when it may be a "quiet" time for them otherwise. Last July we went on a cruise on Brisbane Water on a ferry with the Koi Society for Christmas in July. It was fun.

RobynKathy wrote:

Sounds wonderful! Not much different than ours except for the heat, LOL.

Sorry to hear about the pain, but I'm glad it is improving.

Kathy

Re: Christmas

Christmas in Australia is very different for us over here. It was 35 degrees + celcius (that's about 95 degrees farenheit, I think). On Christmas Eve my family had an extended family picnic in a local park by the water. We all bought food to it, including the traditional baked dinner. Some of my relatives traveled for more than 150 km to attend. It was a very relaxed affair. My Grandchildren were able to play on the swings and play equipment and therefore not be bored by the adult conversation. The younger members of the group were able to talk to each other and not be bored by the older adults etc. And the older adults were able to close their eyes and rest between courses and no-one really noticed.

After that and I travelled back down to Sydney with my daughter, son-on-law and grandchildren to spend Christmas night and then Christmas Day with them and Santa. We then had a leisurely, left-over meal of salad at night. We awoke in the morning to the excitement of , my 5 year old grandson, noticing that Santa had been and had eaten his cookies (or most of them) and drunk his milk and that the reindeers had eaten the carrot we had left. After opening all the presents and making a thorough mess of the loungeroom we traditionally have a hot breakfast of eggs, bacon, tomato and hash browns. I ate what I could of this. We then spent time in and out of the pool to try to escape the heat. When the kids got tired of swimming they would return to the loungeroom to play with more of their toys from Santa etc.

By about 2 pm we were starting to get hungry again so we had a hot Christmas lunch. For us this means, turkey, ham, baked potatoes, pumpkin, sweet potato, beans, brocolli, and gravy. We were supposed to have dessert of pavlova (although many Australian families have plum pudding and custard, cream and ice-cream) but we were too full.

After more swimming and I drove home about 4:30. It takes about 2 hours to get home. We then just crashed on the lounge to relax before going to bed.

It was a good day. Not rushed and just relaxed and fun, especially sharing it with a 5 and 3 year old.

Hope everyone else had a good time.

My only downer was that the immunologist is experimenting with my drugs at the moment. I'm off the Arava (for the last 6 days). I was due to start my new drug on Christmas Day but decided to wait until 26th because he said there could be side effects of stomach upsets and I didn't want to risk that happening on such a day. Unfortunately, I didn't realise how much help the Arava was to my arthritis pain until I started to come off it. By 27th I was in agony. It was no better on 28th but today - the third day of my new medication it is a little better. I was ready to kill the immunologist on 27th!

(((Hugs)))

Robyn

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Re: Christmas

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