Its finally Christmas! AFter working our butts off for the last couple of months with extra hours at work, contract work, and trying to keep the house clean, Kristie and I finally have a bit of time off for the holidays. We both have 12 days off…well, 11 now, but the point is we’re actually getting some time off to relax.
It was pretty rainy on Christmas eve, so we just rented a movie (The Tudors). Today is Christmas day, and we pretty much did whatever we wanted…which wasn’t a whole lot of anything. We got up this morning and opened the two parcels we had received from Kristie’s sister, Brooke and my Mom. Brooke had given us a two DVD set of Curb Your Enthusiasm (season 1 & 2), and my Mom sent a care package of some of the things we can not buy here: Non-Roll on Deodorant, Fruit of the Loom Underwear, Floss Picks, and an Ikea cheese grater. Kristie's parents sent us a parcel too, but as of yet it hasn't arrived (Christmas is a very busy time at the post offices), on top of the present that hasn’t arrived, they also sent us some cash...which did arrive..and was spent. Kristie's sister Janelle gave us a gift certificate for the website "ShopNewZealand," which is really cool...we bought stuff from there last year too.
Kristie and I didn't exchange gifts this year, but we just finished purchasing some Eddie Bauer clothes online, and bought Hopefully in about 6 weeks it will arrive. This is the second time that we have ordered from EB online, and if we are as satisfied as we were last time, it will not be the last. Even with the exchange rate, we do much better than buying in stores here. Anyone who is interested in starting an Eddie Bauer franchise here in NZ, please let me know. We also spent the gift certificate that Janelle had given to us. We bought a whole bunch of food items that we just wouldn’t normally buy for ourselves, like infused cooking oils, sauces, and spreads. We’ll have to make some special recipes with it.
After our online spending spree, we took the dogs to the botanical gardens for a walk. By the time we got there, the sun had started shining once again, so it was nice and warm for our walk. In fact, the dogs started to get pretty pooped by the time we neared the end. The gardens were loaded with people enjoying the weather, and it seemed every other person was enjoying a picnic lunch. Speaking of lunch, Kristie and I were looking forward to having a nice sandwich made with freshly made bread, from our bread maker, but it seems that the heating coil in the bread maker had conked out, so we have to purchase a new machine on boxing day.
Tonight we will be making the traditional vegetarian Christmas dinner of Pumpkin-Walnut-Chickpea burgers with potato wedges on the side! Mmmmmmm…. To end off the feast we are making a brownie recipe that we found in Looney Spoons. As for the traditional Christmas movie, unlike Canada, the movie theatres are not open on Christmas day so our long standing tradition of going to a movie on Christmas has to be postponed until Boxing Day. Technically, it is still Christmas in Canada, so we're still keeping up the tradition.
I hope you all have a wonderful holiday!
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