Christmas and New Year

This year was a very different festive season for us. Firstly because it was our first Christmas spent without family, but secondly because it was hot hot hot! Well sort of, after a lot of rain and a few floods it cleared up nicely for Christmas day and Boxing day. We woke up bright and early Christmas day morning to find that Santa had been and left us a stocking each full of goodies which we dived right into. Afterwards we went out to do our usual morning jobs, helping with the milking and feeding the calves and pigs etc. Life on the farm still goes on and unfortunately the cows don’t know its Christmas! After work we came in and had a nice big Christmas day breakfast and opened all the rest of our presents. Thanks very much to everyone who sent us a little something, we were spoilt! We spent the rest of the day with Ant (boss man) at his uncle's house with the rest of his family. It was great to be included in a big family for Christmas. We played a few games of backyard cricket where James laughed at my appalling hand-eye-coordination skills, but it was still good fun! We had a big roast for Christmas dinner, no turkey but lamb instead, after all we are in NZ! We were excused from afternoon milking and had a really fun and relaxing day before heading back to the farm and chatting to people back home. The weather held out nicely for boxing day and we had another relaxing morning playing with all our new things before afternoon milking.
Unfortunately in the week after Christmas we have had a big flood. We couldn’t milk the cows, the road into town was closed and at one point we even lost power! Luckily enough New Years Eve was a gorgeous day. After work we headed into town and had our tea on the beach and watched the sun set over the sea. It was gorgeous! We came home with a bottle of wine and watched the fireworks at the sky tower on the TV and we were the first in the world to toast the new year. New Years Day was another gorgeous day and seen as we had the day off work we went out for a bike ride and then sat by the creek on the farm enjoying the sun.

Happy New Year everyone!