Christmas has started!
Thursday, December 11, 2008 @ 9:08 PM
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.
Sometime soon we will see the christmas lights turned on in the local villages and in the nearest town, Aguilas - no, the lights are not on yet - it's still too early here. We are going into Aguilas on Friday evening so we will see whether they are on then.
There will be local christmas markets over the next couple of weekends. The ladies group will be having a stall at the market in Pulpi on the 20th December when we have lots of different foods from the countries where the various lady members are from including England, Wales and Scotland along with Belgium and Holland.This is to give the locals a taste of our foods that they don't normaly have such as short bread, english sausages etc. It will be my first trip to the christmas market so I am really looking forward to seeing what it's like.
Next Wednesday there is a carol concert in the Montesol Bar and any funds raised will be donated to a local charity.
And then, on the 21st December - my brother arrives!