IT'S CHRISTMAS!!

Yesterday was Christmas day here in Korea and like small children we woke up nice and early to see what Santa had brought us. Surprisingly, we seemed to have recieved more presents being here than we would have done at home, and it was really lovely to have so many to open! We started on the stockings, where we both had bought each other animal inspired head gear, Ed received angry bird ear muffs and Nina a panda hat. All the other presents followed including lots of English festive food and quite an impressive array of DVDs (including two copies of Zulu)!

After playing with our new presents for a couple of hours and Ed winning a few games of Trivial Pursuit, we started making Christmas Dinner. Unfortunately, due to our lack of oven we weren't able to have roast chicken/turkey but we managed to find a chopped up chicken carcas (for want of a better way to describe it).....
note Ed's face.

We managed to roast some potatoes in the portable oven we have, pan fried the chicken, boiled some brocolli and carrots and made sweet potato mash! All in all it was quite a successful attempt at an English Christmas dinner..... apart from the gravy. Ed found a recipe online which suggested making gravy from corn starch, water and beef stock but perhaps Ed overdid it on the corn starch and the gravy turned into a sort of mixture between apple sauce and jelly. Here are photos of our Christmas dinner:

After dinner we prepared some mulled wine and sat down to watch Elf filling us with lots of Christmas spirit! This was followed by a Christmas cake which we had bought from our snazzy local bakery. We then managed to skype everyone in our family before playing a few more games of Trivial Pursuit- Nina FINALLY winning, and watching some of our new DVDs. All in all in was a very memorable and enjoyable Christmas day!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

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