Erin and Justin

After spending a night with Zoe in London, it was hard to tell if confusion was due to jetlag or red wine. Regardless, we got it together to get ourselves back to Heathrow airport to meet up with Katherine's Mum Trish, and her partner Brian, to wait for Katherine to arrive from Perth! She was delayed because of fog too, but eventually she came through the gate with her eyes falling out of her head, and we headed "home" to Salisbury.

Now, we thought we were pretty lucky to have friends to be able to spend Xmas with, let alone STAY with over Xmas, but who would have imagined that we would be so fortunate as to spend Xmas with Katherine, staying with her and her family, in her mum's house, WHICH HAPPENS TO BE A 4-STAR B&B!!!

SO lucky!

And there were only 2 paying guests there - Tim and Diane, a lovely couple from Los Angeles, who knew the family from staying at their B&B on multiple occasions - so it was all very intimate and warm. And Katherine's brother Mike arrived from Queensland a couple of days after Katherine, surprising their mother into tears and shock (and shock that her kids were able to surprise her)!

So we spent our Xmas feeling part of a family, which with Brian's kids there, and Katherine's friends and Trishes friends, it was a big family! It was a Xmas with presents and a roast dinner and lots of wine - and games and dancing that followed the wine - and we even woke up to stockings filled with presents on Xmas morning!

Our Xmas in Salisbury carried right on until NYE... Thank you so much Trish and Brian, and Katherine and Mike, for making us so welcome!! xx

OUR XMAS PHOTOS ARE AT http://s136.photobucket.com/albums/q164/erinfearn/England/Xmas/?start=all