Merry Christmas!!!

It's Christmas Eve in Sydney, and I think I've finally caught the Christmas spirit. This past Sunday night, we brought a picnic supper to Coogee beach to watch the Christmas carols, which may be what finally did it. It was great, we sang our hearts out to all the carols sung by local Sydney celebrities, a few of which I even recognized! (like Amanda Keller from Talkin 'Bout my Generation and hunky Chris Brown from Bondi Vet...although I still have a hard time forgiving him for the one time I watched a full episode, and the little joey he tried to rescue died during the night).

Christmas in Sydney is definitely not the same as a Canadian Christmas. That was made especially clear from attending boozed up auzzie carols at the beach: when we got there at 4pm-ish I wondered if I should have brought some sunblock, and during his brief appearance, Santa let everyone know that some of the kids in the crowd were "damn bad" and they should leave some beer out for him on Christmas eve. However, we're making our own Christmas here, adapted to our new southern-hemisphere life, and we're having fun doing it.

Merry Christmas everyone!!! For those of you back in Canada, throw a snowball, make a snow angel and drink some eggnog for us.

Waiting for the carols to start..

Still waiting....
Santa! ...and do you know what he's saying? well, he's asking the kids to leave beer out for him.

One of the many carolers and the choir