We had the most wonderful Christmas Day with Aunty, Uncle & Cousins in Balgowlah. Sydney turned on a beautiful summer's day, 29c and clear skies. Aunty had a very busy program for the day with a boules challenge in the backyard first up. After lots of games consisting of various teams, and many convivial drinks plus snacks, no clear winner emerged.
Christmas lunch was outstanding, Aunty created a feast of roast pork, turkey and ham with the most beautiful trimmings. Dessert was a sensation too, brandy snap baskets with fudge ice-cream and berries. Amazingly enough after stuffing ourselves full of food and drink we were still able to play a game of poker on the new poker table (someone's christmas gift, not sure who's though....) Cousin Nick was given a fantastic set of World Series Poker Casino chips which we used in the game. We played Texas Hold 'em Poker and were given a bunch of $1 chips, luckily Cousin Dan had a copy of the rules, this prevented what could have been some heated agument! After at least 3 hours of play Cousins Nick and Dan were left, lots of banter and mind games ensued between the rival brothers, but Dan emerged as the victor with all the chips.
The final event in the schedule was viewing an hilarious episode of One Foot in the Grave on the super giant TV. We were all pretty fatigued by then so we trundled back to base at Frenchs Forest.
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