December 31, 2007

New Year's eve is celebrated a bit like Christmas, a late mass (in our case, an early church service) then a Noche Buena equivalent. During Christmas, it was Danie who woke up, on the new year, it was Gabe who joined us :-D

Dec. 30 pics
This picture is taken minutes before the ones taken from the Cannon Store (If a picture paints a thousand words post)

after the mall, inside the our room now...



at church, new year's eve


after church (just look at Danie, ok?!)

Christmas 2007

Christmas in the Philippines is celebrated with a late mass on Christmas Eve and Noche Buena at midnight. Noche Buena is a midnight feast of sorts with the whole family gathered around the table, and in our case, a short worship and prayer and then the feasting! Danie woke up for an hour or so only.












Christmas Day 2007


Opening Gifts

A real christmas tree :-)

Since i'm being blackmailed, i'm posting some real christmas tree pictures now ;-)


The tree was stored outside on the terrace for a while, in a bucket of water...



The water eventually turned into ice.



After a few hours the frosty tree was unfrosted and ready to be decorated.



And that's what the end result looks like:






Merry Christmas again!

If a picture paints a thousand words...

All Apologies...

I know, I know, I need to update the blog with more pictures of Danie during the holidays but I have been swamped with a lot of ho-hum things and the internet connection is just horrible here and blah, blah, blah...

Actually, you really should bug Karsten since I'm not posting unless he posts his Real_Christmas_Tree pictures! ;-)