Christmas Eve 2014

A great day.  Started off with a golf game.  It's the regular day for the park group, but there were only 3 from each park out today, so 2 groups.  It didn't seem that cold, but there was frost on the greens, so they never let us out until a half hour after our tee time.  Played reasonably well, but the wheels fell off about half way, so not as good as it could have been.  The score was better than last week, so continue to improve. 
  Marg was down at the kitchen where she and the crew put the 5 turkeys in.  They didn't put stuffing in the birds, so that helped make it manageable.  They like to cook the birds the day prior here as the cooks also have to have time to make the other dishes for the table.  Marg made her yam dish as well as the crepes.  So a busy day for her.

  Had a bit of time to sit on the patio in the sun today.  It was really nice after lunch.  While we were sitting there this cockroach came strolling along and was just behind our place.  They are really quick and it is unusual to catch them.  It must have been chilled from the early morning and was moving a bit slow, so I hit it with the spray I have.  I wanted to see how effective the spray is & it worked real well.  He was pretty big, to me anyway, although not as large as the one we saw in England with Daniel.  Anyway the moral of this story is don't mess around our place unless you want to be 6 legs up.

 Got back for lunch and a bit of visiting.  By then they had taken the birds out and had them cooling.  Marg stopped in to check on the status and sent a messenger out looking for me to bring the electric knife.  She had it set up that I was to carve the breasts on all five, while the others did the dark meat.  It went pretty quick with all the help and the meat is put in the big fridge until morning.  They seemed happy with the breasts all being carved into nice even slices instead of bits and pieces.
  The park had a luminary [I think that's what they called it] tonight.  Marg put out the 3 white bags with tea candles in them.  Apparently it's a Mexican traditional way of welcoming people to your home.  Pretty nice when you saw them all lined up along the street in the dark.  Never lit ours until we got back as we went out for dinner.
  Went out with 7 other friends in the park for dinner.  We had planned on a buffet, but it closed early tonight, so we were scrambling.  Ended up at Denny's and the food was much better than we anticipated, a pleasant surprise. 
  After we ate we came back to our place where we had a few cocktails for happy hour.  We missed happy earlier, so indulged ourselves later in the day.  Managed to get 9 people in our living room, but that is about maximum for this place.  Marg posted the pics on her FB account, so none here.