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Overseas visitors

Mum had some overseas visitors last weekend for a few days. They were relatives from Cambodia, and were in Australia for the son's graduation.

The grand-kids

The grandchildren were certainly very busy... they had presents to open, christmas dinner to have, aunties and uncles to entertain.... very hard work indeed.

So what did Santa bring

We must all have been good this year, Santa brought everyone gifts... Aidan got a guitar amongst other things (he disappeared behind the mountain of wrapping paper), Jake got a Playstation Guitar Hero and a keyboard.

Brendan will get a head-start before starting med, with a special Fisher-Price doctor's kit
Anne and Brendan with their "baby"
Amanda seems happy with her presents
Mammy inspecting her birdbath

Christmas cont.....

After dnner there was time to play with the children, Emma is starting to get a little more interactive and can make a alot more noise. It must be the influence on her older brother. Dad also thought it was a good idea to get Damien to work as he will be in Japan for most of the year in 2008. We all relaxed on the veranda in the evening.

Christmas Dinner in Monbulk

Everyone was up in Monbulk for Christmas. After much stressing out about whether there was enough room it worked out great and everyone fitted in nicely. The food was sensational as usual!

Celebrations

Mum Lau kicked off the celebrations in style....... we had Mum Lau, Honoria, Jeremy and Sophia, over. And a fantastic time was had by all (tummies).

The after...

Yyyyyyyyyuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmm

Preparation

The three crayfish, before they were put to the knife (and fork).... Halfway through the preparations, Derek realised that he didn't actually known what he was doing. So a quick phone call to Anne later..... voila

Christmas dinner for the Laus (and nee Laus)

For various reasons, and with only 24 hours' notice, we had the whole Lau/Richardson gang over at our place for Christmas dinner on Saturday. Derek was a champ and managed to put together a most delicious dinner for everyone. The menu:
- Hot smoked salmon with a rocket salad, fetta and capers, topped off with caviar
- Garlic quail
- South Australian oysters with champagne
- Crayfish roasted with garlic butter
- Pumpkin soup (Sally's request)
- Roast chicken with yummy stuffing (stuffing was Sally's second request), and roast vegies
- Anne's yummy Christmas pudding with brandy custard, with Sophia and Jeremy's red bubbly, served with cherries and grapes.

Thanks, Anne, Jeremy and Sophia!

Tasmanian wildlife

These are some of the wildlife that we encountered on our trip. Our favourite is the meditating wallaby who sat there for 20 minutes whilst dozens of tourists took photos. The only thing missing was a coin bowl for donations.

Stanley .... cont.....

There were Kodak moments everywhere...... The last photo is of Stanley, also known as "The Nut".