Christmas Day

A BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO KIRSTY & JACK

At 6.30 we waited for the children to wake up finally at around 7.00pm Abigail woke up followed by a very tired Bradley however they were very excited to see their stockings full of presents from Santa. They carried them through to our bedroom where they then started unwrapping them, Abigail slowly taking of the paper and Bradley tearing and ripping the paper to get at the present inside. We then ate pancakes for breakfast before changing and sitting down to open the presents which were under the tree. The first thing they noticed were the body boards which we had placed under the settee, they quickly pulled them out and practised balancing on them. We managed to open a number of presents stopping to play with the Kid Knex and Polly Pocket presents before Tom and Lynne arrived with a couple of presents. Abigail and Bradley opened their present which was a set of Petanque balls Tom and Lynne both play this game so suggested a game later. They also gave me and Paul a picture of the compound opposite to them at Basse which Tom had drawn I must say I was very impressed with his drawing skills it will be a nice memory of our time spent in Gambia to take back home. After they had left we continued opening our presents Paul was pleased with his Gambian flag string vest as you can tell from the photo, I was pleased with the local sparkly shoes Paul had bought me. With all the presents under the tree open we told the children there were other presents outside for them to find They quickly put on their shoes and went outside to look Abigail was the first to spy the bikes under one of the bushes with both of them pleased with their bikes they quickly climbed on for a ride around the compound. We had to make a quick adjustment to Abigail’s bike and move the stabilisers up of the floor with the view to taking them off all together later.