Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

All the best for 2007, hope you all had a great one. We had a very traditional one. Mum and Dad were here and bought out the chipolatas and sausage meat but luckily almost everything else was found here. This year we had an American turkey, but last year we got the freshest turkey ever, it sat on the scales blinking at mum, I am glad I wasn’t there or I would have turned all Linda McCartney!

As usual Christmas would not be christmas without stupid attire, this year even the dog joined in as you can see.

Lots of great prezzies were had by all and then after stuffing ourselves silly we collapsed and watched the second Pirates of the Carribean. Perfect day!

New year was very quiet as Ray was on duty and could not drink, still I think previous new years make up for lack of alcohol this year.

Lots of love to you all and the very best of hapiness health and wealth for next year xxx

St Catherines Monastery

My Aunt and cousin were over a short while ago, they were planning a trip to St Catherines Monastery and a climb up Moses Mountain. Fabulous idea I thought and decided I really ought to go with them as I have not really seen anything of Egypt above the water. We decided to climb overnight on the Friday night to watch the sunrise. Unfortunately it was the Camel 20th Aniversary party the Thursday night with a completely open bar. Not the best plan. The climb was agonising and I gave up and took a bedouin up on his extortionate offer of riding his camel up there. The guy ommitted to tell me that the camel stopped short of the 750 rugged steps to the summit as it was too hard going for the camel...well what about me then! So I wheezed and I climbed and I stopped and I nearly vomited andI made it up there. It was absolutely beautiful but I have yet to decide if it was worth nearly losing a lung and not being able to walk for 3 days!
Here you can see the best camel in the world (ie he carried me) and the view from the top.