MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! woke up this morning to sunshine and light, which is unusual for christmas! Opened all our parcels and gifts from back home which were awesome, so good to have! Graemes mum sent us a stocking with lots of chocolate so we munched our way through that! then watched our xmas dvd that my sistas sent, which was the best thing i have ever seen! so thanks to everyone involved, it was great to see everyone and made me shed a few tears but lau...

Today we got up early, Skyped home then left to head up to Whitianga, Coromandel. Julie and Jonathan are away to Vietnam on a cycling holiday so we are staying at their beach house! The sun was shining the whole way and it was roasting! A great day and not like Xmas eve at all! lol! Took us about 3 hours to get there, traffic was busy as a lot of people go up for Xmas! so got to beach house and we set up our tree and pressies etc. chilled out then walked into th...