I’m sure you can gather by the title of this post that i didn’t end up spending Christmas day miserable and alone. Yes, Yasu decided to work at 4:00 am Christmas morning until 9:00 am and came home just after 9:30 am to pick me up and take me to our friends house! Seems like all my jumping up and down about it actually got through to him.
We had a lovely day, my friend’s family was there and we were included as “family” because we are now considered that. It was a lovely warm atmosphere. Lucky i took extra wrapped presents because we received quite a few from family members that we didn’t expect. As it turns out we had brought just the right amount.
Yasu got a hot chocolate making set from our friend Jo, who owns a cafe. Every time he goes to her cafe, she makes him a mega hot chocolate with extra marshmallows, so now he can make his own. He was pretty happy with it as you can see from the pic.
Santa in shorts made a surprise visit and handed out presents from under the tree.
We had Thomas the Tank going up and down the middle of the table during lunch, courtesy of our friends’ husband’s creative mind and their 2 year old son’s toy box!
As Thomas Tank went down the track it made real chuga-chuga woo-oo noises and blew steam! What a treat and very unique experience.
I celebrated my Christmas meal of Turkey, Ham, Seafood (of which i didn’t have any) and salads with a grape chuhai.
You can see next to the chuhai is a wrapped up bag of fruit mince pies dusted with icing sugar, courtesy of our friend’s cafe. Everyone got a take home bag!
Lunch was finished off with berry pavlova. The pictures underneath are of the mass production going on before we sat down to eat them.
In all it was a great day, and both Yasu and i enjoyed ourselves. At the end of the night i farewelled Yasu as he went home. He was working the next day so i decided to stay at our friends house overnight. He didn’t mind.
I didn’t get much sleep as i was sleeping in their 4 year old son’s room, next to the 2 year old son’s room, and the 2 year old son was crying all night. When i finally got to sleep, i was woken up at 6 am by the 2 year old wanting to play!! He must have known i was in there… being the good guest that i am i got up and played with both son’s as the other one woke up not much later than the first one. When my friends got up and saw us all playing they said they should have me sleep over more often!
That day we had decided to go to the Perth Zoo, but because it was so hot we decided instead to go to the movies. We saw Madagasgar 2 which was really good, quite fun, and the music was very boppy. I enjoyed it even though i haven’t seen the first one. The lion characters reminded me very much of the good and bad lions in The Lion King.
Yasu came and picked me up at 4 pm and i went home and fell into bed and slept until about 10:30 pm. Yasu had been good and made his own dinner, not waking me in the process, and we spent a few hours together watching Japanese tv before going back to bed.
