Merrrrrrrrrrry Christmas!

Hey!

It's been a busy beginning of a week..Well compared to what it has been. Catherine and her girls have been here and so we have been working a bit more and spending time with them catching marron, cooking, baking and just hanging out. I made yummy nanaimo bars last night. The girls enjoyed them. They are pretty sweet. It will be my contribution to Christmas. I am also attempting lefse (a norwegian dish), it is still in dough form though.

This past weekend was a hot hot 40 degree weekend. We went to Perth for one last time. We stayed in Catherine's house for one last time and then spent Saturday with Juli...She cooked us a Colombian soupa. Yum! Juli lives right next to Swan River so while she worked in the evening David and I took a stroll down there and walked into the city for some Subway. On Sunday we woke up ROASTING, we picked up our liquified selves and headed to the mall for some air conditioning. We picked up a present for Kris Kringle at the Vanzetti farm and had some iced coffee and a chat with our friend Glenn. We went to the beautiful beach in Mulaloo one last time before we head back to Sydney! It was wonderful. After the beach we met up with some friends and had a picnic and waited for the Christmas Carols to start. It was weird. I could not get over it. It felt like they were having a Christmas Party in July. But this is how they celebrate Christmas every year. It was put on by a local church... Hillsong wannabe type music. It was good, they finished off the picnic and carols with some fireworks. Yes, fireworks again. David and I feel like we see fire works on a weekly basis here. They have them for everything..and every single one of them is better than the Canada Day fireworks in Regina. hahaha.

Anyways, it is our last day with Catherine and the farm so we have a lot of work to do! We leave for Sydney on the 27th at midnight and spend a couple weeks in Sydney, working and watching the NEW YEAR's EVE fire works from our friend's house and then we are off to New Zealand on the 12 for about a month. That is our plan for now.

We wont have any internet at the farm for Christmas...but get ready for a photo overload when we get back to Sydney!!!!!

Miss you all! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!! (I have to keep saying this to myself so that I can believe that it's actually Christmas time.)

Holly and David