Good morning Christmas eve! We woke up around 8:00am, the same time today that we have been waking up every day in Lusaka. Because we are hosting Christmas lunch tomorrow we have quite a few things to prepare today. We made a mayonnaise and chive potato salad, Christmas pudding sauce, chicken liver pâté and Christmas pudding ice cream. While Mum, Justina and I were cooking Dan was at work on my computer using excel to perfectly set up every card that we would need for our Monopoly board. The way he did them, aside from the silly values in Zim currency and the names, they look exactly like the cards in Monopoly!
Mum phoned Dad while he was still at work to ask him to stop by Spar on his way home to see of he could pick up more glacé cherries for the desert and if he could get any Christmas napkins. He eventually got home, and told us the shops were manic and that it took him 25 minutes just to find a parking space. To throw salt on the wound, the shop didn't even have what he needed to get! When he had had a bit of lunch we all set to work moving the dining room table so that we could pull the leaves out to its full length, set up the chairs and decorate the table. We are having quite a few people to lunch tomorrow, so we need all the space we can get :)
Mum and dad went across to introduce themselves to our neighbour in the afternoon and Dan and I relaxed and watched some tv and finished up most of the Monopoly cards. We were ment to have pasta with mum and dad but they took so long to come home that we cooked the pasta ourselves, and had it with pesto and some of the smoked mozerella. Dan and I both thought the cheese tasted a bit plasticky so we left the pasta and had a sandwich instead. Mum and dad eventually came home hours after they left and were pretty drunk :D The lady next door, Natasha, had plied them with beer and wine and they had a fantastic time with her. She works at one of the casinos in town and loves alone because her husband works in SA, so we are pretty sure she gets a bit lonely. Mum and dad thought the pasta was delicious, and they ate loads of it, before we all said goodnight and went to sleep.
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