Once again, sorry for the delay in getting these posts up. We have a personal goal of getting all posts updated before Stacy heads back to work in 6 weeks! :o
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Christmas 2013 was a special one to us as it was Matty's first. We also had Stacy's parents here, so we had even more to celebrate.
Christmas in Oz, however, has never felt like Christmas to us. It is just too hot and there are so many traditions that are just so foreign to us (bbq on the beach anyone?). Nonetheless, it is fun time, but we always try to incorporate some of our own traditions into it. One of these traditions includes having a turkey dinner. Unfortunately, turkey in Australia is a bit difficult to come by. First of all, the only time of the year that they are sold here is at Christmas time. Not many Aussies buy turkeys though (they prefer to buy seafood for Christmas) - so I speculate that they only sell them here to appease the expats. ;) Second of all, turkeys are ridiculously over-priced. We're talking $80 AUD for a standard-sized bird. Furthermore, it's never easy finding the standard trimmings that you are used to. For instance, cranberry sauce (jellied or whole) is not sold down here. They do have cranberry "jam" though (which was suggested as a substitute to us our first year here - barf). So this year we were prepared - we had Stacy's parents bring all the necessary trimmings down with them from Canada.
So everything was looking good for this year's celebration - that is, until the day before Christmas Eve when Blair came down with the norwalk virus. And as everyone knows, norwalk is quite contagious, so it was passed along to Stacy next. This meant that we needed to delay (gasp!!) Christmas by a day. So, in the end, we opened our presents on boxing day and had our turkey dinner that day too. All in all, it was a great celebration, but still fell short on feeling like a proper Christmas.
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------- Anyways....
Christmas 2013 was a special one to us as it was Matty's first. We also had Stacy's parents here, so we had even more to celebrate.
Christmas in Oz, however, has never felt like Christmas to us. It is just too hot and there are so many traditions that are just so foreign to us (bbq on the beach anyone?). Nonetheless, it is fun time, but we always try to incorporate some of our own traditions into it. One of these traditions includes having a turkey dinner. Unfortunately, turkey in Australia is a bit difficult to come by. First of all, the only time of the year that they are sold here is at Christmas time. Not many Aussies buy turkeys though (they prefer to buy seafood for Christmas) - so I speculate that they only sell them here to appease the expats. ;) Second of all, turkeys are ridiculously over-priced. We're talking $80 AUD for a standard-sized bird. Furthermore, it's never easy finding the standard trimmings that you are used to. For instance, cranberry sauce (jellied or whole) is not sold down here. They do have cranberry "jam" though (which was suggested as a substitute to us our first year here - barf). So this year we were prepared - we had Stacy's parents bring all the necessary trimmings down with them from Canada.
So everything was looking good for this year's celebration - that is, until the day before Christmas Eve when Blair came down with the norwalk virus. And as everyone knows, norwalk is quite contagious, so it was passed along to Stacy next. This meant that we needed to delay (gasp!!) Christmas by a day. So, in the end, we opened our presents on boxing day and had our turkey dinner that day too. All in all, it was a great celebration, but still fell short on feeling like a proper Christmas.
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