Christmas and New Year in OZ (Sian)

Another hot Christmas for us!!! (Kind of)
We spent Christmas day with 2 Canadians, (our dear friends Kevin and Amanda), and 5 other Brits (Em and Franc, and their cool friends). Needless to say, when you get 9 people together who all come from cold-ish countries, it rained and the wind blew! We had the great idea of having a pic-nic of cold turkey and salad on the beach. Now, this would've been great on a still day, however, the one day we want the sun to shine it blows a gale! We had a rather comical lunch, Franc managed to wear his and we had to catch and eat and stray bits of salad that flew past our heads! Still we had crackers, told some really bad jokes and then went for a swim - well the girls swam, whilst the wimpy boys wrapped them selves in towels and got covered in sand on the beach! Just as we were called back from the sea, and the desicion was made to go home, the sun came out and we managed to get in a game of charades and all got sun-burnt.... oooops. A great but bizare day was had by us all.
New year it was boiling!!! 42 degrees... it was like a sauna outside, and anytime we left the door open, our flat got hotter and hotter and hotter. Luckily, Kevin and Amanda took pity on us and invited us to their lovely air-conditioned flat, where we had a game of poker, which Steve won, and a few people had accidents with too much Sambuca (luckily not me!). At mid night we strolled down to the river front to watch some magnificent fire works and clapped the new year in... No Auld Lang Seine though! (Or burning Santa's like in India!). Needless to say on New Years day we sat around nursing hangovers and vowing never to drink again!