Happy Christmas

 

As usual it was raining on Christmas day. One of the first really rainy days we have had since the last rainy season. It makes it nice, because it is dark in the morning so the children sleep in a bit and a bit cooler so it feels like Christmas. We went to the Christmas service at the Anglican church because Daniel was playing piano. This was much enlivened by the appearance of a cockerel half way through the service which Caleb proceeded to chase round the church. Afterwards we went to the ice cream parlour for an ice cream. It's nice to break with tradition sometimes. We had a Christmas meal in the evening with friends, before which Caleb and the youngest son of our friends both jumped in the swimming pool fully clothed. They were supposed to be playing with boats in the small splash pool as it was wet and a little cool to swim. Obviously they just couldn't resist the pull of the water. The weather was much better on
boxing day so we went for a family swim and ended up having the pool all to ourselves.