Christmas Day at the Seetos and Boxing Day at the Chans

Christmas Day

Janet, Fiona and I spend the day with the Seeto's for lunch and dinner. I made sushi to bring there for lunch as well as some chocolate cupcake christmas trees for dessert. Bindy and Ange made a vongole and mussel spaghetti, which we had with a cob of bread.

For dinner, Aunty Cath made her eight treasure duck, Bindy and Ange supplied the oysters, prawns, bbq pork and vegies. For dessert, Bindy made oozy chocolate puddings.

Boxing Day

The Seetos came over to our place for lunch and dinner. We decided on a Thai menu, with rice paper rolls, tom yum soup and thai beef salad for lunch. Also invited Marion over for lunch.

 

After lunch it was present opening time. Lily played Santa and handed out the presents.

 

 

Then for dinner we had thai prawn mango salad by Megan, pad thai by Lily, Bindy and Ange made pork larb, and Janet made steamed egg plant, and soop park (kung koong) and sticky rice.

Lights of Christmas

The day after Janet, A. Cath and Evan got back from their holidays up at Hallidays Point, we went out to the city to see the Santa Fest at Darling Harbour and the Lights of Christmas at St Mary's Cathedral. Drove the blue bus in as we had Fiona with us and went to Darling Harbour first, got there at 8.30pm so positioned ourselves on the bridge and waited for the 9pm fireworks.

After the fireworks we walked to St Mary's Cathedral to see the lights. Jenly was there with her parents as well. Took a lot of photos and then made our way back to Darling Harbour. We wanted to go check out the Christmas Tree, but Fiona was not going any further and wanted to go back to the car, so Evan, Kaylene and I went to take photos of the tree. By the time we got to the tree, Janet rang to ask when the Parking station was closing. Not too sure whether it was 12 midnight, so we started jogging back to the car.  It was a warm night so by the time we got to the car, we were sweating profusely. Got Lily to drive the car down and then I took over to drive home. As we were driving out a car was driving in...I think Janet is a worry wart.

LTS Christmas Dinner 2012

Wednesday 19 December 2012

After deliberations, it was decided that we would go to Rhodes Phoenix for our work Christmas dinner this year, so I was given the task to book the restaurant.  I sent around the menu and everyone got to choose a dish.

The menu:

Entrée	Fried/Steamed Mixed Dim Sim Platter (3 in a serve)	$8.00
	Spring Rolls (3 in a serve) or Curry Chicken Puff (3 in a serve)	$8.00
	Vegetarian Spring Rolls (3 in a serve)	$8.00
Mains	Sauted Beef with Vegetables (JB)	$19.80
	Crispy Chicken with Ginger & Shallot Sauce (PO)	$21.80
	Honey King Prawns (MT)	$26.80
	Pork Ribs with spiced salt and chilli (RS and IR)	$19.80
	Braised 2 kinds of mushrooms and veges (JG)	$23.80
	Mongolian Lamb (KM)	$19.80
	Steam Rice (per person) 7 x $3	$21.00
		$176.80
	Per Person (excl. Helen who is ordering her own, also excludes drinks and tips)	$25.26

With drinks, dessert, tea and coffee ordered as well, I think we all ended up paying $25 per person.

Fiona's House Xmas Party

 Sunday 9th Dec and it's that time of the year again.

On Saturday, there was last minute gift wrapping to be done.

Then on Sunday, Janet made beef mince & vegie puff pastries, Lily made vanilla slice and curried eggs to bring to Fiona's xmas party. I made sushi for our own lunch and brought a tray over for the Seeto's.

We left home around 1pm to go pick Lily up from Narwee and then to pick up Uncle David, Aunty Cath and Evan before heading to the party which was scheduled to start at 2pm.

Food on offer this year was mini party pies and sausage rolls, mini quiches, sausages, spinach and fetta pastizzis and the food we brought. Desserts on offer were an assortment of store bought cupcakes, mini pavlovas, peach cake, Aunty Cath's chiffon cake, chocolate slice, plus lots of chocolates - mini soft drinks and packet chips.

Got to meet Kathy, the new house mate's family (sister and husband). JT bought DVD's for each house mate, and gave female staff a purse holder from hawaii and chocolates wrapped in mini milk cartons.

This year I received a $30 Myers/Coles giftcard from Fiona and we gave her a DVD and framed photo of JT, MT, KC and FT for her room.

OTEN Christmas Luncheon

The LTS team decided to join in the Christmas spirit and this year we all bought our $20 tickets for the OTEN 2012 Strathfield Staff Christmas Party which was being catered for by Spit Roast Catering.

On the menu was: Oven Roasted Turkey, Leg Ham off the Bone, Roast Beef with Gravy, Rost Pork with Apple Sauce, Roast Potato, Roast Pumpkin, Bread Rolls & Butter, New York Coleslaw, Garden Salad, Hawaiian Rice Salad, Caesar Salad and for Dessert, Plum pudding and custard or Pavlova and a soft drink or water.

Iveta, Ronald, Jenni, Katherine and myself had an intimate table for 5. Helen had opted out and was manning the phones in the office.

As they were lining  up to get the food, I rushed back to get some money and buy some raffle tickets. Ended up getting 10 tickets for $5. And guess what, I won 4th prize, which was a $100 bunnings gift card.  So glad as I can put that to use more than I can a bottle of wine.