Merry xmas and happy holidays ...

Wishing all our friends and family out there a very merry xmas and happy holidays. Kinda strange to be celebrating the holidays in a new country without friends and family around, but we should be seeing most of you sometime over the next few months :)

Maya was scared that Santa would visit and scare her. So we told her that we did not give Santa our new address and Santa will not be visiting us etc. She did make sure that all the doors were locked before she fell asleep. The kids are still not aware of the presents and gifts trend. So we are skirting by another year without giving them gifts on xmas day. (they get a fair number of things the rest of the year though ....)

Things were quiet around here. Except for Subway and Pizza Hut everything is closed. We went to Mapua beach today and had a good morning in the water followed by a picnic lunch. We'll go there later this week or next week since they have some good restaurants (The SmokeHouse, Flax, Naked Bun) out there that we'd like to visit. The aquarium seems a wee bit small, but is probably worth a visit