Christmas Day 2008.
The day startd earlyish (in fact I haven't been up this early on CHristmas Day since i was a kid and tappingbetty & son-of-royboy, used to wake everybody up at 6 am to see what santa had brought us). Tappingbetty and Tapmum picked me up at 7.30 am and we headed off to Viewbank to Son-of-Royboy's (aka brother #1)for our first Christmas meal of the day.
KT (almost 9 yr old niece) was cooking pancakes with raspberries & whipped cream, tapmum had made Bircher muesli, & son-of-royboy had burned some croissants, for our breakfast.
I had to 'sing for my supper' as KT had got a download card for her nintendo ds and it wasn't working so my tech skills were called upon to find out what system file was missing and to install said sytem file (which I did).
My time in front of the pc did not end there. 11 yr old nephew was having trouble downloading to his new ipod nano - so I sorted that out for him - I am definitely favourite aunty there at the moment.
BollocksPants (aka Brother #2) rang from England to wish us all a merry xmas and catch us up on his news, and Be-There-With (aka brother #3) rang from NZ where he, s-i-l, and the feral cherubs, are spending Xmas - got a merry xmas from 3yr old nephew (as well as a detailed chat about dora the explorer!).
We exchanged family presents before TappingBetty, Tapmum and I headed for Southbank for our Christmas lunch.
This year's venue was La Camera and it was a great choice as we had a superb 3 course meal.
It was a set menu - choice of 3 entrees, 3 mains, and 3 desserts. TappingBetty had won an excellence award from her work - which was a $100 restaurant voucher - and she very generously put that towards the meal.
Now it's home, feet up, relaxing with my xmas presents, and not feeling like eating again today.
Merry Christmas everyone.
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