Day 352: Yule be back

We had a little re-run of many of the Christmas festivities today. We exchanged presents with my parents and my sisters and their families,

had Christmas dinner,

then went out for a walk.
Thanks to the small children we had an excuse to visit the playground. However in the end, the slightly tipsy adults had just as much fun - this angled circular walkway rotates making it hard for anyone larger than my seven year old nephew to get very far up it.

We discovered that if two of us walked at the same time in opposite directions, it was possible to prevent it spinning - of course, that still leaves the issue of passing each other at the top so as to both complete a circuit. If that wasn't enough fun - how about this: one of my sisters and my Mum on the swings?

After we got back, many of us joined those who had stayed at home in a little armchair nap. The cousins have all played together really nicely and it has been great to catch up with those we saw in the US in the summer and those we didn't.