Today was the 'Ladies of Terreros' Christmas Dinner. There were about 30 of us and we all met at our local Bistro who had kindly arranged to do an english christmas dinner. We had Champagne on arrival and started with Prawn Cocktail, and believe me - the local prawns are fabulous. Annika, who is Belgian, had asked a number of the ladies what a traditional dinner would be and duly served up turkey and sprouts - the only thing missing were the stuffing balls! Not to worry, I have sorted that for Christmas Day - Neil, we need 40 stuffing balls please!Dessert was a selection of chocolate treats and a few glasses of wine gifts made sure everyone had a good afternoon.
Secret Santa gifts had been bought and wrapped to the value of €10 and were all labelled up with raffle tickets and after dinner we all drew out a number to see what gift we were taking home. Only a couple of people drew their own numbers and needed to exchange and most people opened theirs at the dinner although I and a few others are being good girls and keeping them to open on Christmas Day.
At the moment our Christmas decorations are still in storage and we are not due to get them until early January so this Christmas our pressies will be under the Pointsettia, as traditional a plant in Spain as it is in the UK and providing I can keep the pups away from eating it, it will look nice with the pressies around it on Christmas morning.
Christmas has certainly started here in Terreros! And as I was all poshed up for my first Christmas dinner I thought I would take the opportunity to grab the pups and have a Christmas photo done - I think it looks really good - pity Neil was behind the camera, it would be good to have one of the 4 of us!
1 comment:
Sounds like you have really settled in during the last 7 months,
wishing you a very happy xmas and all the best for the forth coming year, hopefully it won't be too long before you are settled in your new home.
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