Our First Cabarete Christmas

Had a wonderful holiday!  We started out at Nancy and Arvid's for a traditional Christmas eve dinner.....traditional except we all had on flip flops and check out the palm trees outside the patio door.  After dinner, we went over to David and Louise's condo for dessert.  There were about 15 of us there....and it was a wonderful time.  Always hard to be away from family and old friends at the holidays, but all these new friends make it much easier.

Today we spent our Christmas on the beach.....surrounded with our beach dogs.  Hermann always goes with us, and the two "security" dogs at the condo as well.  I've managed to pick up the sweetest little Dominican dog who waits outside the condo for me each day and she loves the beach as well.  Matt was talking to a lady on the beach today while I was walking.  I was headed back and Matt said she looked up and saw me coming with these four dogs following me and she turned and decided to go the other way.  I guess we look a little intimidating....especially the two chow security dogs.

Pat and Angie, along with their daughter and granddaughter, joined us at the beach....and brought their little dog Oreo.  So great day for us and the dogs.

For our actual Christmas dinner today we had spaghetti;  Not very traditional, but simple.  BTW, looks like Matt's second batch of fudge turned out great!

We were able to get the magic jack work well enough to get calls through to most of our kids and Matt's mom.  I wasn't able to talk with Ryan though.....he tried to call and we missed him.  I tried to call back but he has his phone turned off as they are in Grand Cayman this week.  Haven't been able to personally tell him "happy 30th birthday" yet!