QUEENSCLIFFE

FISH & CHIPS FOR LUNCH

Today we went to Queenscliffe with Mel & Ben for lunch, we had originally planned to go Boxing Day but as Phil had to work over Christmas we finally went on the Saturday after Christmas. We had a lovely day, the weather was good not to hot and we had our much looked forward too fish and chips. The shopping area is changing every time we go down and now has a couple of new shops to look through. Phil got his supply of green tomato pickles and I bought a couple of bits and pieces. After lunch we strolled along the waters edge and then walked back to the car and went to find where the fishing charter company was that Phil and Ben hope to use sometime this year.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRISH

HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Hope you are having a great birthday and that our dinner tonight is good.

PHILS CHRISTMAS DAY

CHRISTMAS MORNING
While we were all opening our presents and having fun Phil was fixing his truck in Toowoomba. His sister Gayle and her partner Steve came to collect him for the day but firstly they fixed his problem. After which they headed off for a late breakfast/early lunch with a friend of Gayle's and then on to Steve's parents for a slap up Christmas Dinner. So although he missed out being with us, he had a very nice day with Gayle and Steve. Later in the afternoon he headed into Brisbane.

CHRISTRMAS DAY 2008

When I found out that Phil would be away on Christmas Day I was not happy, but we both ended up having a good day. Phil spent the day with his sister Gayle and her partner Steve in Toowoomba where he had Christmas lunch with Steve's family and was made most welcome. Mel and Ben stayed on Christmas Eve and had their first christmas together at home. Ben is a present poker and it was very hard for him to leave the presents with tags on them for him alone, and had to laugh to myself when at 6.30 in the morning I could here the rustle of paper as he unwrapped Mel's present to him. Needless to say we were all up early and had a great time unwrapping presents. This year for the first time I didnt have much to do for lunch as Trish cooked the meat and vegies and made sweets, so it appears that the changing of the guard is happening. We had a lovely lunch and headed off home about 3.30pm, a quick call to Ian and then a sleep. We headed back for tea about 6 which Byron and Kylie did and it was nice to just sit back and relax although I was missing Phil it was good to be with all the kids and grandkids.

COCKTAILS AT 8

This year for our Kris Kringle we had a cocktail party. Mel and Ben were our wonderful cocktail makers and we had a choice of three - martini, cosmopolitain and japanese slipper. The martini wasn't very nice but the cosmos and slippers were yummy. Thank you Mel and Ben for doing such a great job. As you can see from the photos we all had a great night.

MADAGASCAR 2

As Trish was working and Kylie had shopping to do it was a good chance to take the girls to see this film. We all enjoyed it and must say the soundtrack was great it had us all dancing in our seats. What a nice way to start Christmas Eve off.

HAPPY 21ST CRAIG

Congratulations Craig on reaching 21. As your Father said on the night their are many who thought you would never make it to 21 but here you are still in one piece. Hope you had a great night we all certainly did and we wish you many happy kilometres in your car.