Christmas at Home

The last time I’d been home for Christmas was way back in 1999, so it was a great to be around family and friends this year.  It was especially important for me to be home because my older sister Sally was pregnant with her first baby, so it was definitely a time to celebrate!  In fact, the last time we’d been together as a family was for Christmas in Spain way back in 2002.

We were able to catch up with some of my friends over the days before Christmas.  I had a great catch-up with some of my old friends from university at Katie and James’s place in Richmond.  I hadn’t seen some of these guys in five years!

Christmas Day at home was fantastic!  We had the whole family there – Mum and Dad, Marnie, Sally and Ren flew from Perth, and my Aunt Karen flew down from Townsville.  We were joined for lunch by our good family friends the Owens, and through the afternoon many other friends dropped by.

Christmas Day at the Anderson’s.  Far too much fine food and wine consumed…  Enough even to wear the silly paper hats from the Christmas crackers.

Boxing Day (26th December) means one thing in Melbourne – the Boxing Day Cricket Test at the MCG!  It was a gorgeous day so I took Adriana to see her first game of cricket.  We also met up with some of my friends from Berkeley who were traveling around Australia over the break, and we went to the match together.  There was a huge crowd of 75,000+ at the ground for the game, and we had a relaxing day in the sun swilling beer.  Not sure what my American friends thought about cricket though…