Firstly, you may have noticed that this blog is again slightly different... I updated to blogger beta, and with it come some small changes to the overall design and format. Just a note to some family: if you're keen to keep updated, don't forget to check the archived blogs. I think my current setting is to archive after one day, so if I've made a few entries since you last checked, some of them will already be archived. Make sense? Let me know if you're confused.
We (Emily, Matt and I) did indeed make it to the Glenelg Christmas Pageant on Sunday morning which was fun, but not quite as fun as I had remembered from my younger days (perhaps I was slightly easier to impress back then...?!) I took a few pics and was looking through them when I was thinking about which ones to post and then had to laugh at myself... none of them are blog worthy in the least; besides, my camera batteries died before Father Christmas even made it! Bummer.
Poor Matt came (I think) to the Pageant partly under duress and partly out of curiosity... unfortunately he was not prepared for the onslaught of country music and line dancing he was about to witness (I must say, neither was I). The announcer said the line dancing was a "Glenelg Christmas Pageant tradition". Tradition my foot. At one point during the half hour pre-Pageant Line Dancing extravaganza Matt heard the song playing and proclaimed very loudly, "If Santa Claus is comin' in a boogie woogie choo choo train, it is definitely my cue to get off". Highly amusing. Read Matt's thought's on his first (and probably his last) Glenelg Christmas Pageant here.
It was a spectacular day on Sunday though, one of those summer days that you think of very fondly, especially when immersed the deepest moments of winter *sigh*... sooo beautiful down by the sea. As Bing Crosby so aptly put it, "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas"- but not because of the ice, rain and snow. Because it's getting very bright, the Jacaranda trees are blooming and summer is definitely on it's way. What a gorgeous time of the year.
That being said, I am definitely looking forward to my first cold (and hopefully white) Christmas!
Poor Matt came (I think) to the Pageant partly under duress and partly out of curiosity... unfortunately he was not prepared for the onslaught of country music and line dancing he was about to witness (I must say, neither was I). The announcer said the line dancing was a "Glenelg Christmas Pageant tradition". Tradition my foot. At one point during the half hour pre-Pageant Line Dancing extravaganza Matt heard the song playing and proclaimed very loudly, "If Santa Claus is comin' in a boogie woogie choo choo train, it is definitely my cue to get off". Highly amusing. Read Matt's thought's on his first (and probably his last) Glenelg Christmas Pageant here.
It was a spectacular day on Sunday though, one of those summer days that you think of very fondly, especially when immersed the deepest moments of winter *sigh*... sooo beautiful down by the sea. As Bing Crosby so aptly put it, "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas"- but not because of the ice, rain and snow. Because it's getting very bright, the Jacaranda trees are blooming and summer is definitely on it's way. What a gorgeous time of the year.
That being said, I am definitely looking forward to my first cold (and hopefully white) Christmas!
2 comments:
Uuum, your father will ask "what is blogger beta?" and I will reply "beta the bloggs out of me?"
I have seen a few of the Glenelg Pageant's and I never saw line dancing, must have closed my eyes at that part. Still always next year Matt for the real pageant in the city. (no line dancing) gosh only a short time before you leave for the USA and the snow, take plenty of warm clothing, keep the bloggs coming. Love Dad and Patxxxxx
Uuum, your father will ask "what is blogger beta?" and I will reply "beta the bloggs out of me?"
I have seen a few of the Glenelg pageant's and I never saw line dancing, must have closed my eyes at that part. Still always next year Matt for the real pageant in the city. (no line dancing) gosh only a short time before you leave for the USA and the snow, take plenty of warm clothing, keep the bloggs coming Love Dad and Patxxxxx
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