Christmas Eve (24 December 2006)

This was my first Christmas away from my family in Peru; actually it was my first Christmas outside Peru; so like you could all imagine it was difficult for me to have the Christmas spirit. However I said to myself that this is not the last Christmas of my life and I trust that the next ones will be with my peruvian family. It was a strange feeling to be so far from them but also to be so close to the man I love and to his family. It was wonderful to see how happy they were having John so close to them.


I have to recognise that the first days of December were hard for me but because I love Christmas so much and because I believe that being sad is not part of the season I decided to decorate my house and bring the Christmas spirit into my home.


After a lot of work this was the final decoration at our home.





At the last minute we decided to celebrate Christmas Eve with the family. This was a lot of work for me because John was working all the 24th. I worked very hard, starting early in the morning, to prepare dinner. Here some photos of our Christmas Eve table (Yummy Prawn Cocktails!).



Here is the chef (myself) with the yummy caneloni.


We had a nice evening with all the family; we opened crackers to have some fun and gave all our Christmas presents to the family. Here John and I with paper crowns from the crackers.

All the family from L to R: Mary, Alison, Nikki, Dylan, Elspeth, Kate, Bruce, Emma, Lorena, Simon, John and Diddi.

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