More festivities

Awoken at 6:30am by the two boys we were looking after so up and entertaining them. They were taken off our hands around 9:30am so took some time to recover, skyped dad and then headed down to the mazda delearship to check out the cx-5 as a replacemt SUV for the wife's 8 yr old ford escape gas guzzler.

We really liked the car and has great gas mileage for it class ~30mpg combined. However they didn't have our colour in stock anywhere in SoCal only with optional extras like $100 for strip of metal on rear bumper as protector and $200 strip of material on trunk as cargo cover. Even though we got a good deal on the price the payments were still too much so we made our excuses and left hoping to make them sweat and come down a bit more.

This evening went to our Germans friends place for Xmas do with some English and Belgian friends. Everyone brought something from gluwein to blinis to shepherds pie and goulash and Flemish stew. Rounded off with some pumpkin pie. Good company and a lot of laughter!