Christmas Eve 07

We went to Mon's place on the eastern side of Melbourne. It has become a kind of tradition to do this. We exchange gifts and have a meal. This time his son Nicholas and girlfriend Caroline came. His daughter Sarah was also there. The meal was a relaxed affair of continual nibbles of prawns, nuts, dip, cherries, crackers, avocado, ham, biscuits, etc, and later Mon made up a large creamy pavlova laced with mango pieces.

Later we played a few group games. In particular we played 'Dictionary'. This is a fun game which involves one member of the group picking an 'unknown' word out of the dictionary, spelling it out for the rest who then proceed to write the probable definition of it. These definitions are all submitted to the one who has introduced the word who reads out each and includes with them the correct definition, still hoping the rest don't recognise it. The rest then decide which is correct and if they pick the correct one they get a point. Players get points also if another players pick their definition instead of the correct one. The leader for that turn (who introduced the word) gets points if players don't recognise the correct definition. Some of the attempted definitions were so funny that we were all splitting ourselves laughing.