Christmas

Not our usual type of Christmas, although we did manage to get in a bit of turkey.

Christmas Eve, while Keenan was out on a bicycle tour, we wrapped up a few little gifts, which at home would be the stocking stuffers, and set them out under a potted plant.

We picked up some Bali liqueurs, coconut, coffee and banana and some milk and went to the room to have a couple of drinks and snacks before supper, along the way we picked up four Muslim girls from the USA and a footloose friend of Keenan's, Forbes, who has been living here for the past couple of years. A friend of Keenan's that may be even more off the wall than she is:o)

So I am sure it was a bit eye opening for the Muslim girls, but every thing went well. We had our drinks and the girls asked lots of questions about Canada, not so many about Christmas. Then we all went out to the Bebek Bengil, or Dirty Duck Restaurant for crispy duck. The place is surrounded by rice paddies and when it was being built a flock of ducks ran in to get out of a storm and left dirty webbed foot prints on the floor, hence the name Dirty Duck. So a bit different celebrating Christmas Eve in a Hindu country with our new Muslim friends.

Christmas Day dawned hot and humid, and we were up at the crack of dawn to open our treasures, well as the sun comes up here about 4:30AM it might have been a bit past dawn. We spent the day mostly at the pool, and a tough day it was, reading our new books and being extremely lazy.

Then back to the Bebek Bengil for a buffet of duck, turkey, beef, pork, four kinds of fish and seafood, roast sweet potatoes, veggies and pumpkin pie and Christmas Cake.

So, for all you folks that were feeling a bit sorry for us not having a proper Christmas, thanks for worrying, but we did pretty good!!!

Merry Christmas to all!