Despite the rain, we had a great Christmas in Rockhampton with Jon's family. Much of the extended family came up from down south to converge on Uncle D and Aunty M's place. Fortunately, they are well set up for wet weather so we all kept high and dry and found plenty to do for a few days. A highlight, apart from Christmas morning spent around the tree with a gazillion presents (well there was 40 of us there!), was ice skating on the temporary rink that came to town for Christmas. Who'd have thought...ice skating in Central Qld in summer?!?! Anyway, our plans to head south for New Years are looking a little dodgy with the highway cut in one place today. But by the end of the week, we hope it will be smooth sailing and we'll be able to make it to our second Christmas for the year.
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| Opening Jacob's Christmas Eve present. |
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| Yummo! It was pjs! |
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| Christmas morning...Jacob made sure we were up early. |
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| Reading the new books on Christmas morning. |
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| Family and the tree and presents. |
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| Jacob got lots of fun things from family. |
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| The Van Itallie family @ Christmas 2010 |
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| The boys |
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| The snow bunny |
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| Ice skating was a blast! |
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| Real ice...real nice |
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| Happy families @ Christmas |
