Gutted I had to work a night shift on Christmas eve, but never mind. I carried all of the gifts that people had sent from home into work. The night shift went quickly, and when James came in to work on Christmas Day morning for the day shift we went on Skype for an hour or so to speak to our families and to open presents. What lovely thoughtful gifts :) thank you very much, it was lovely to have gifts to unwrap on Christmas Day morning, and it was great to be able to chat on Skype too!
Again with the short straw I was scheduled to do another night shift, but didn't really want to spend the entire day in bed. I managed to get a few hours sleep in the office, and work up in the afternoon to find that it was snowing!!! And not just a few tiddly flakes, but proper snow, as you can see from the photos!! Amazing!!! The others who were not working today also came in to work, beats sitting around in your room alone. I popped in to my bosses house too to say merry Christmas to him and his wife, and to see their little baby. Their room was filled with presents for the baby.
The Fire section had invited us and ATC along to a BBQ in the afternoon, and so had the helicopters. We went along to the helicopter bar for a little while, but I left soon after to go back to work to see if I could be of some help and to have a bite to eat at the fire section BBQ. Everyone was in good spirits.
What a very odd way to spend Christmas. Would never have thought that we would be more likely to see a white Christmas than the UK!
Tomorrow morning is the Stanley Races - a horse race event obviously, that happens on boxing day each year. Though it is now Wednesday and the last time I went to bed for more than 2 hours was Sunday. So I am feeling a little tired. And the weather is awful. It's currently 3am, and it is blowing an actual gale and is hailing. I don't think I will go to Stanley. Though I could always just sleep when I get back... I don't want to miss out on anything...! Oh, what to do?!
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