Double-Half
or One Ten without ham

For 25th the new Park-management offered a BYO-Christmas lunch and also the Kingsway Shopping Centre opened it´s doors for a free Wanneroo Christmas Lunch "for all those in need of company on this special day" - nice ideas, no?
Which reminds me: When we first stayed in this Tourist Park in 1999 the address was Wanneroo. Over the years our address changed to Landsdale and now we live in Madeley. Crazy!

We didn´t join either lunches since Sami was so kind to invite us over to her Portuguese Christmas lunch :-)



I expected heaps of yummy food - loads of fish, too, which sadly is nothing for me, and lots of Portuguese talk, which I certainly do not understand at all.

Since Sami and her family lived in Braunschweig for a while Ingo wore a BRAUNSCHWEIG t-shirt and to my surprise a girl came over and said in German she doesn´t speak German.
And every time she has to write down the town she was born in she has to google it to get it right.
She was born in Braunschweig.

Huh???

And then.
Her Dad showed up.
After leaving Braunschweig 15 years ago he spoke in my opinion some pretty perfect German!
Funny thing was it was Ingo who had trouble talking German to him and fell into English all the time at first.

Languages, huh?



Sami had an Indian girl over, too and her Daughter´s boyfriend is from France, telling us the French are stupid he won´t go back there ;-)
We were quite a mix there.

And certainly everybody, Ingo included, ahhhh-ed and ohhhh-ed over Sami´s first Grandson, he is a cuie-pie for sure!



We enjoyed the new shaded patio, wonderful food and fun company heaps.
And instead of being lost in Portuguese we spoke the most German in quite a while to others.

To top it off we even got pressies, thank you so much for spoiling us, Sami!



With Transperth everything went smooth, too - on the way to Warwick we even were the only passengers!
So that was Christmas 2016, today we don´t do much, just some grocery-shopping. Aircon is on already, 31C, much better than the still warm 11C back home!

Fun fact we learned: Fries with ketchup and mayonnaise is not to be found outside Germany.
I always thought that´s the most normal stuff to have!