Christmas Holidays at Home !

Each year we return home the first week in December to spend time with our family.

We are fortunate enough to arrive home in time to attend numerous end of year school assemblies, pre-school concerts, dance concerts, sports finals, end of year open days and other Christmas functions with our family.

 As you could imagine with two grown up daughters, a son (-in law), and six grandchildren it is very busy !!

One tradition we have begun over the last few years is a night in the CBD in Sydney traipsing all over town to see the Christmas lights and light shows. We head past the David Jones windows, listen to the bottle music man, view the Martin Place Christmas tree, the QVB diamonte tree, Pitt St Mall lights and street musicians and finish with the St Mary's Cathedral light show.

We also love to head into the Domain Carol's rehearsal night, a habit we began when our youngest daughter sang at the Carol's each year with the Australian Girl's Choir.

Below: the QVB building in George St.

Below are more photos taken in the CBD of Sydney. As you can see it is well worth the trip. 

We always drive in and park at the Domain carpark for $10 from 5pm, which is a short walk from Hyde Park and St  Mary's Cathedral

Soon after Christmas each year for the last 20 years we've been heading down to the  Corrimal Beach Tourist Park for our family holidays. We are lucky to enjoy activities run by a Beach Mission team each year.

 Our last couple of weeks at home are spent preparing for the coming years work and catching up with friends. 

As you can see we have a very busy time when we head home !

By Lynne