I had an awesome Christmas! Yeah, it was a little weird with the nice hot weather and hearing stories of the massive snow fall back home, but it was so much fun!
The morning started with breakfast and opening presents.  I got a beach bag/towel and the sweetest gift EVER from Matt.  I wasn’t expecting anything from him since he already put some money towards my camera, but he got me a photo album and filled it with photos of my friends and family.  A note in it said, “Just in case you miss your family. Love, Matt” and the album ended with a photo of us.  I may or may not have cried.  Dude did good!

After that, we mostly hung out and watched movies then started getting dinner and drinks ready.  A few of Matt’s extended family came over for the meal and the night ended at 1am with *mostly* everyone playing SingStar (new favourite game).  I have a bunch of photos up on flickr, so go check them out!

Tomorrow we start our road trip to Mt Maunganui!  6 days on a beach…there are no words to describe how excited I am.  It’ll be so nice to chill for a week before having to go back to work.  I’m sure I’ll have a ton of photos to make you all jealous when I get back.