Christmas... but not white

I got woken up at 6:30 this morning when Dylan (my cousin, Daniel is the other one) came in to ask me whether or not I wanted to open my presents from Santa. I decided because I was already awake I would open my presents – of course we were all awake… it was Christmas after all! After all the adults got up & had their cooked breakfast we got ready for the day then read (a family tradition) the Grinch stole Christmas! I read the book this year even tho it was off the computer because we didn’t have the actual book here.

After that we opened our presents. This year I got heaps of clothes. (just what I wanted) and so did Amy and Emma!!! We had an early Dinner, Aunty Jo did an awesome job of making dinner we had ham and turkey… it was sooooo yummy. Later that day we went for a Christmas walk around a lovely bush walk we walked half a mile then walked back. We had an awesome Christmas it was lots of Fun.

The Day after Christmas

Well today we woke up late and watched T.V we played on the bikes played with our presents till Lunch! After lunch the Daddys and the kids went out to the shooting range, Uncle Paul had a 9mm pistol. When we arrived Uncle Paul and Dad got it all set up… Amy had the first turn at the shooting range while me Emma and the boys stayed in the waiting area and played with a cute dog called Reggie!

When it was my turn I had to put on some safety glasses and some ear muffs, Before we came uncle Paul showed us haw to use the gun so we knew how to load it and what to do! I got 3 shots got 1/3 on the sheet! Dad and Uncle Paul were so good. It was pretty amazing to fire a real live pistol at the shooting range. Dad says when in Rome do as the Romans do… and Americans love their guns!

Zion Southern Baptist Church

Today Dad woke us up at 8:00 to tell us we were going to a church that worships God really well! He was right, this church had no other white people apart from us they were all darker skin but their passion was amazing. They were hard to understand & there was a lot of yelling but it was a great experience!

After that we went to get a pie and a sausage roll from the Australian bakery. Once we got home we decided to go up Sawnee Mountain. (Emma was not well last night so she stayed at home,) the walk was so much fun we took photos at the top, played in the rocks & had loads of fun. We saw most of Cumming from up there. On the way down Dylan ran ahead and he took the wrong turn so we spent ages trying to find him. But we did so all was well in the end. Dad made me kiss the Indian Chief’s bum!

Stars and Strikes

We played for most of the day did the usual stuff. because there is not much to say I am going to skip to the interesting part… stars and strikes… well this is a massive place where you can go bowling, play laser tag, do bumper cars, and play car racing games, we did three out of the 4, can you guess? First we did bowling. This was fun we were put on 2 teams, Adults- Kids. We paid for1 hour than another half hour cos we weren’t finished in time. We all enjoyed the game (well almost every one) then had pizza for tea! Next was the games. We got 2 card with 20 tokens on it, every game was 4-6 tokens each. I played Nascar with Amy, we also played a motorbike game, an air hokey game, and much more! The last was Laser tag that was fun, we all got a vest with a laser. We went in a dark room and had to shoot one another for 7 min. What fun!

“ALVIN” yep, no body does that better then him.

The Dads went out to a car museum while Aunty Jo and the kids went out to the movies - Alvin and the Chipmunks, the sequel. It was great movie, well I wont spoil it for those of you who want to see it. But it’s a excellent movie!!! We helped tidy up the house as we are leaving for Florida tomorrow. Which means Disney for New Year, then another week in the warm weather. Cool!!! Lots of love from Deanna.