Lesson Twenty Seven - Rain, Buzz and Family.

And so this is Christmas. I have to tell you straight, it is becoming less and less like Christmas around our house as the years roll by. This year my mother decided to have her family over for Christmas Lunch. Usually we have this at my Papa's house.
Today was the worst kind of weather for Christmas Lunch, it was incredibly windy and wet. There was even hail as well. So much for getting everyone to sit outside. To it's credit though, the weather did hold up good when we actually sat down outside to eat and as soon as the meal was over it came down hard.

Lesson - There is no such thing as sleeping in if you're hosting Christmas Lunch.

It blew, I was so sleepy and I was extremely comfortable in bed. I love that feeling. However I had to help with preparations, so there was no room for me to relax. We set a huge tarp up under the car port and used these really heavy pots and weigh it down. However the wind was just far too strong. These pots were very heavy and very strong, and yet one of them simply shattered because the wind blew so hard. The rest of Christmas Day was spent indoors.

We went to my aunt's house for celebrations with Dad's side of the family. It was pretty much the same sort of thing we do year after year. This year was not without it's amusements though. They have a cat named Jasper and he was wandering around the front of my Dad's car for some reason. He was very cautious when near the front of the vehicle and was pawing at something in the grill. I ducked low to see what it was, it was a dead bird. It got lodged into the grill of my Dad's car. I told my Dad and he said he knew about it. He didn't realise that the bird actually got lodge up in there. He said he was driving and a bird swooped low and he didn't see it afterwards. Oh well. A really fun thing we did was play Buzz on my cousin's Playstation2. We did the Quickfire Quiz with 100 questions. It was an 8 player game and believe it or not, I won.

Lesson - Don't mess with me when it comes to Buzz.

Even my cousin who owned the game was struggling. She said it was a lot harder with 8 people to play. Another cousin of mine was doing freakishly well, he lead for most of the game. However it turned out that about a third of the questions that were asked he actually knew. He admitted later to guessing. That's pretty good in itself, considering each question gives you a 25% chance of being correct. The final score for me was 12,975 points.

Now you're probably wondering what I got for Christmas this year. I got mostly money this year and some chocolates. Most of this money is going towards my trip, which means I will finally have enough! YAY! Though it wouldn't hurt to have a spare $100 or so. Same aunty on Mum's side didn't let me down, few years ago she gave me a small jar of nuts. Ones you could buy from the supermarket for $2.50. This year she didn't disappoint, a tin of wafers! Good on ya Godmother. But in all seriousness, this time, she got it sort of right. I hate nuts, at least I will eat these.

Anyways, Merry Christmas to all of you. Have a safe holiday and I hope you'll continue reading!

James