Henry Malthus

Christmas in pictures

Here is my belated Christmas '06 run-through.

I finally got around to getting the photos uploaded off of Bob's camera, only to find that unfortunately it seems that I was unable to use his camera correctly (they look fine as thumbnails, but very blurry when viewed full-size):

Our fantastically-decorated Christmas tree. This has to be one of the bushiest trees I've ever had; fittingly, we all managed to help make sure there was an equally 'bushy' number of presents sitting underneath it. Also note the Crunchie bars hanging off the tree; it seems to be somewhat of a family tradition back home.

The lack of a chimney didn't deter Santa in the slightest. We all had our initialed stockings filled to the brim by the Big Guy come morning. I guess if the spiders can find their way in, so can he.

Another norm in our family come christmas time is the champagne cocktails - champagne and peach schnapps, a sugar cube dropped in, and a slice of strawberry to top it all off.

Christmas was a lot of fun this year. We gave and received presents; gorged ourselves with ham and turkey, then a course (or two!) of pudding; drank some cocktails; and relaxed in the spa.

Big presents this year were financial support from Ma and Pa (Thank you!) to support me in my Sydney excursion, and the awesome OpenGL Library from my brother.

Hope everyone had an awesome Christmas, and will have a excellent new year.

PS. Aunty B, thank you for the card and the spider (though we already have enough of those here!)

Christmas 06

Hard times in Tahoe^W^W^W^W^WSydney

Something I should have posted earlier: Bob has a nice (albeit old) post showing some of the tougher sides of life here in Sydney.