We had my parents come to stay for their very first Christmas in England in 2009. I know it has been a very long time since then, but we have been busy, busy, busy with our crazy jobs mainly and with fixing up the house and getting involved with church stuff. I will tell more about church life later in another entry. For the moment, we should just say that We had a very nice time and my parents enjoyed staying in bunk beds in our spare room! We had a traditional Noche Buena (Cuban Christmas Eve) dinner followed by a traditional English Christmas day with church in the morning (I sang in the worship band) and then dinner complete with crackers, paper hats and family games! Tim's uncle, aunt and 2 cousins came for the dinner and stayed the night at the Webbs with Phil there too. We all had fun playing Buzz which was one of Tim's Christmas gifts. We also watched some traditional English football matches during which neither team actually scored, so we had to persuade my dad that the Brits are actually aware that they should try and score but that we just watched some pretty rubbish games in a row which was unfortunate. Elise, my only sister, sadly did not come for Christmas, and she was missed, but we did send some presents home and received some nice gifts handmade by Elise herself. We did also get some more visitors, my dad's sister and her husband who live in Chepstow (near Wales) came to stay one night and we had a nice pub dinner and taught them how to play Buzz too. My parents really enjoyed seeing us in our new home, our church and meeting our friends and family, and they enjoyed having a little mini Pajot family reunion too. Overall we had a nice Christmas, and now our house really feels like a home because my family have been here.
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