O.K the big Santa day arrived; we moved on the boat the day before and were still living out of our luggage, with not everything having a place yet. Now that may sound miner but everything needs a place on a boat especially if theirs a few of you living on it.
We the parents were exhausted with all the renos and pre chrissy running around add to that the stress of finally getting the fridge delivered but it arrived damaged. Somewhere in transit it had been dropped on its bottom and so was making horrid noises but we just had to go with it as the tiny 12 volt fridge in the boat had already been unwired and removed to make room for the new one, as well as all that food that had to fit in it. Then the heat of a north Queensland summer was also getting the better of us as the portable air conditioner did not do its job so we needed to go out and get the box type and get that installed in a window quick smart to get relief from the heat. All of this certainly was a testing time and it took all my strength to remind myself I have chosen this, this is what I wanted and it’s going to be alright.
The kids loved Xmas morning and it was a huge success and Xmas lunch turned into dinner as we just couldn’t figure out cooking with the new solar dome oven.
I must say it did turn out absolutely delicious. The girls 7, 11 and 14 ate and enjoyed every thing the same as we did. No special or separate food in our house/boat…
We had turkey with cranberries and camembert cheese
Warm salad of baby spinach, rocket, and roast pumpkin and red onion with pine nuts. Salmon in garlic butter sauce was the hit by all and of course some garlic butter prawns thrown in for Mark and Destiny.
We topped it all off about 2 hours later with an Australian classic, Pavlova with mango and blueberries……..Yum! Yum! Yum! We shared this with our new neighbours on our finger next to us Shaz and Julian. Shaz was pregnant at the time and hulled up at Abel point marina waiting their very important delivery.
They shared their monohull with there two Burmese cats whom took a liking to wandering aboard our boat and stealing Lulu’s food. Lulu of course to silly to be bothered if cats steal her food, let them while she spied on them excitedly while they hissed at her.
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