Christmas Service & Supper

The traditional Christmas Eve service in the Patos church went off well and we managed to sing 6 carols (5 international and 1 Brazilian). I must admit that there is not a lot of enthusiasm here to sing Carols. Is there anywhere anymore? Anyway we made it, but it was a bit of an effort! Added to this was the problem that we had not had time to properly adjust the sound equipment as the electricity board finally did there thing so late nor did we have a full P&W group as there was no room for them with the Cantata to come later in the service. Oh well - we survived!

The cantata was brilliant. The best part of the night. How they did it so well I will never know as the poor kids had little chance to rehearse owing to the electricity problem or lack of it. The cantata was wonderful!

We then went on to the presents round the tree for all the church kids and bags of sweets for kids old and young! 

Following this we went to our eldest daughter Deborah's for the traditional Brazilian Christmas Eve supper with all the family present. It was a lovely meal and get-together.

Now it's Christmas day and most here in Brazil are sleeping off their hang-overs - but Liz is cooking the Christmas dinner without many of the traditional British trimmings this year, but that's no problem. Happy Christmas everyone!