Monday, January 23, 2012

Christmas and New Years

So Christmas and New Years spent in another country is quite different. But having Marketa and Stan made it much easier and fun holiday. Here are a few of our photos.
Todd one of Bryan co-worker on Christmas day BBQ at his house

This was ONE egg with TWO yokes...weird never seen this before
How Amber got to decorate for Christmas at the Lodge

Amber starting to set up the buffet for Christmas

Carving ham

Jim one of the owners is carving some roast beef

Seena (german) trying to take a photo while me being normal

Lots of food from all over different countries

Mussel soup ( very popular ) yuck

Japanese sushi

Bryan and Stan grilling up some of the meat

This is Ben and Orella ( french)

Wanaka ( Japanese) Pierre(German) Evan ( Korean)


Dont remember their names but they were english and german

Antje and Sina ( german)

A few Slovak people

Again all French

Thomas and Robert ( german)

More french and a few german

Bryan making what looked like a bomb but he was trying to make something

Marketas strawberry sponge cake

Dessert time


Jim and John trying to show everyone that doesnt know how to do the christmas crackers ( also extremely popular here)

We held them in a line so they would all go off

we each got a crown and a joke

So did Stan and Marketa

Fire time..one of the French and Kiwi favorite pass time




And then Bryan setting off fireworks in the back


Present time



He can never open anything like a normal person


We got Creationary ( a lego pictionary)

Stan making a clam from legos

Our candy tree
Jim saying something but more of a view of what they call stubbies( really short men shorts), out here thats pretty much all you can buy for men too  :(

A New Zealand Christmas Tree Flower

The beginning of New Years

Decided to see if we could play Creationary all night


Yeap thats how we roll





Amber drawing pictures on the window

Made it to the kitchen

Amber burped and Marketa fell down laughing

Bryan having the urge to sit on top of the fridge to wait for the new year


Yeap he done

We were all a little gone that night



A T- Rex from our game




So that was our holiday weekend and hope you enjoyed it like we did and stay tuned for more.

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