Christmas Day Marathon
Christmas day is over for another year - but what a day. Let me give you a run down of our day.
Our first port of call was the morning church service at Thornbury Church of Christ where I was the pastor for eight years. The building looks just the same as it always has. I once painted this building with the use of a cherry picker. That was about ten years ago, and as I looked more closely I thought it just about needs doing again.
Of course at Thornbury we caught up with quite a number of old friends. This is Dr Roger Killmier who is still an elder and church organist at Thornbury.
After church at Thornbury it was on to the Botanical gardens in Melbourne for a gourmet picnic lunch. Mum and dad and my brother Simon joined us for lunch.
One of the locals decided that our lunch looked pretty good and attempted to join us. Dad was of course very willing to share his lunch with the duck!
After lunch in the gardens we moved on to a cousins place in Port Melbourne. We then had opportunity to catch up with some of my Mother's family. This is me (in the middle!!) with my Mum and her younger and very attractive sister, Aunty Marge.
After the stop off at my cousin's place, it was on to my brother Mark's place at Newmarket for the Holt family Christmas. Of course it was the traditional barbecue in the back yard.
It was great to have David well enough to join in Christmas Day this year.
My youngest brother ben returned from two years in London earlier this year and is pictured here with his lovely girl friend Zoe.
We finally made our way home to Dad and Mum's place and collapsed in bed, but guess what? Today is boxing day and we have another grand day planned for our family. Tomorrow we head off to Warrnambool and on Friday Jo and I head to Sydney, so there's plenty more holiday to come yet.
Our first port of call was the morning church service at Thornbury Church of Christ where I was the pastor for eight years. The building looks just the same as it always has. I once painted this building with the use of a cherry picker. That was about ten years ago, and as I looked more closely I thought it just about needs doing again.
Of course at Thornbury we caught up with quite a number of old friends. This is Dr Roger Killmier who is still an elder and church organist at Thornbury.
After church at Thornbury it was on to the Botanical gardens in Melbourne for a gourmet picnic lunch. Mum and dad and my brother Simon joined us for lunch.
One of the locals decided that our lunch looked pretty good and attempted to join us. Dad was of course very willing to share his lunch with the duck!
After lunch in the gardens we moved on to a cousins place in Port Melbourne. We then had opportunity to catch up with some of my Mother's family. This is me (in the middle!!) with my Mum and her younger and very attractive sister, Aunty Marge.
After the stop off at my cousin's place, it was on to my brother Mark's place at Newmarket for the Holt family Christmas. Of course it was the traditional barbecue in the back yard.
It was great to have David well enough to join in Christmas Day this year.
My youngest brother ben returned from two years in London earlier this year and is pictured here with his lovely girl friend Zoe.
We finally made our way home to Dad and Mum's place and collapsed in bed, but guess what? Today is boxing day and we have another grand day planned for our family. Tomorrow we head off to Warrnambool and on Friday Jo and I head to Sydney, so there's plenty more holiday to come yet.
posted by Larry Holt @ 6:23 AM
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