WARMING UP TO XMAS

With Nick finishing work for the year we thought it would be great to get away to the coast for a few nights to ease into the holidays before Christmas hit.

It was also the perfect opportunity for me to experience one of my Christmas presents from Nick – zorbing. For anyone who hasn’t heard of this, it basically involves diving headfirst into an inflatable bubble that is filled with 40L of water and hurtling down a hill. Before you wonder what I did to Nick to warrant this punishment, it is actually something I have wanted to do for ages and the experience was as good as I expected, so good I’m glad I got to do it twice.

Once zorbing was done we had quite an appetite so ducked into a nearby McDonalds. Not our finest culinary experience but we were on holidays and it was easy. Ollie hadn’t been before and was pretty taken with all the action in the playground area. He also got to experience chicken nuggets. I actually have a personal issue with these morsels as they are made from the dregs of the chicken and I’m also worried about having a child who will only eat them and not try other more delicious food. Despite these issues I let OBear try them out and after having a taste myself, I’m not too worried. They taste awful.

The rest of our trip was spent relaxing, reading books, watching movies and lazing around the pool. On one of our many trips to the neighbouring shops, Ollie and I had a go on a carousel which was pretty tame given we sat in the carriage rather than the hairy scary horses that go up and down. Maybe next time?

We left on Christmas Eve, just in time wrap up the rest of the pressies to put under the tree and to tell Ollie that any noises he heard on the roof that night were Santa and his reindeer, definitely not just the usual garden variety of possum tearing around up there.

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