A Different Christmas Experience

We decided to go swimming at our favorite beach at Stone Haven Bay, since this will be a Christmas to remember for its uniqueness. Dad wanted to use his boogie board, since we haven't been to the beach for awhile. Of course, I don't really swim, so I sat on the beach and watched him and worked on my Tobago tan. You can barely see him swimming in the frothy sea. It was rougher than we had seen it and there were cross currents so he only rode a few waves in before deciding to just swim a little. The water is such a beautiful color and we never cease in our enjoyment of watching the waves crash on the rocks.

This is the beach the Gilleland's can walk to from their villa. It is a beautiful long beach. At the far end is where I captured the pictures of the fishermen. There is supposed to be a snorkling spot up against the cliffs. We have yet to check it out on a calm day.





We have been to a baptism in this spot when it was very calm. The baptism would have been hard to execute with the waves smashing on the rocks as they are doing.



We were invited to Christmas dinner by our landlord along with about 8-10 others. It started at 2:00; we left at 4:45 and heard them still going strong at 9:00 pm. The food was wonderful. Angelo is Italian and loves to cook. His son did some of the dinner as well. Sasha runs a pizza place in Bon Accord. We will have to find out the exact location. He made some awesome sour dough bread for the appetizers to be eaten with. One of the cooks from Chao's pizza in Scarborough, which has authentic Italian pizza was also in attendance. We were so full that we didn't eat the rest of the evening, even though we were up late.

Our favorite part of Christmas day was the video conference and the opportunity to talk to everyone. We didn't get to bed until 11:30 pm. ( We are 4 hours later than my mom and 3 hours later than the Utah, Ariz, and Colorado groups and only one hour different than the Virginia Ross's. It made our day to see all of you at once!