Ben with his Christmas Cracker squeaky toy from Uncle Stuart

Christmas in Moranbah

It was such a strange build up to Christmas, we just didn’t feel like it was Christmas at all – well you wouldn’t if you had 40+ degrees of sun hitting you every time you stepped out of your air-conditioned dwelling! At Coles, where I work, I had to wear a red ‘Happy Christmas’ t-shirt to work for the two weeks before and we wore Christmas hats on the last few days!! Moranbah council had put a huge Christmas tree up and some nice lights, but it was so strange seeing all this in the sunshine. It is born into us that Christmas = dark nights + cold miserable weather, so the sums here just didn’t add up.
Andy’s employer put on a Christmas party in the park near our house early in December, you just turned up with chairs and your esky (cool box) full of drinks!! It was fantastic, there were loads of things to keep the children entertained (bouncy castles, huge slides, fairground rides etc.) while mums and dads got on with the socialising, free food from the burger van and a live band playing all night! I went on one of the rides that goes round and round and round (recurring to infinity) after a few wines which in hindsight was not the most sensible option (I didn’t want a repeat of V2004 eh Jenny?!).