We had guests over Christmas, so while the kids were overwhelmed with the usual abundance of gifts, I had a busy time in the kitchen fixing up our turkey for the 24th (yes, most french families do the whole big dinner the day befre), with taro stuffing, bread-sauce, seurettes confit (done up something to taste a bit like cranberry sauce), roasted yams, braised red cabbage, no brussel sprouts, tropical mince pies and a 'buche de Noel'. For the actual Christmas day we did a slightly more relaxed barbecue style meal. It was fun, but I'm enjoying a well earned couple of days rest before we have a Brit-style re-run on the 30th......
The girls had a great day, LOTs of rather silly toys, lots of princess girlie stuff this year, but the highlight was definitely the swingset that I got sent over from Tahiti - its just like Tahiti now that we have our own playground!
It took Viriamu and Pierre (a manually inclined guest - what a stroke of luck!) a good while to get the thing fixed up and modified to their liking...
....with the assistance of a bit of Hinano
All in all it was a merry Christmas!
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