Christmas in England

I got to visit my new nephew Luke, and spend time with my family.

Flew home New Year's Eve so I could still celebrate here too, but didn't manage a wink of sleep on the plane, fell asleep about 10 minutes after dinner when I got home, apparently was impossible to wake, and therefore missed out on the festivities anyway! There is always next year.

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Jamaica Thanksgiving

We won a free trip to Firefly in their monthly drawing. It's not a gimmick, we can actually take a free stay up to the value of our previous stay last Christmas. The only limitation is that we have to take it outside the peak season, so that means not at Christmas. However, Thanksgiving is out of peak season, so that worked well enough for us. At such late notice it wasn't going to be easy to get flights arranged for the traditional Holiday weekend, so we travelled Tuesday before Thanksgiving to Monday after, and had no difficulties getting flights.

I can't tell you how many people reminded me to take my Green Card with me this time, so there was absolutely no doubt it travelled with me!

We had a great relaxing time. The only trips out we took were a couple of days out at Hedonism II, including on Thanksgiving day. I guess it was just another day in Paradise for the Hedo management. The meals weren't special holiday fare or anything, but were still the great food and service we have come to expect. Actually I'm glad it wasn't a "special" event there, we would probably have had to pay extra if it was. The only thing that was out of the ordinary routine was the "annual spanksgiving parade" from the nude beach out to the surrounding non nudist resorts. I guess the neighbors tolerate this once a year outpouring of exuberance in the form of scantily but seasonally dressed up merry makers.

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