It was the night before Christmas....

Dear friends, readers, followers,
I'd like to wish you all the best for Christmas! Hope you enjoy the day with the ones you love!
And even if you don't celebrate Christmas just enjoy a beautiful Sunday!
Thank you for still reading me inspite the very few blogposts I still write!
Hugs to you all
Ariadne

Christmas Eve-Christmas Day 2013

Merry Christmas every one! I hope you had or are having a great day.

Yesterday I did lots of chores, heard the Christmas carolers; only a few visited us among them my Godson with his lira and his brother and sisters. It was lovely!

(The photo is from our visit to him on Saturday!)

In the evening we went for a walk at the city centre.

Lots of lights everywhere and people partying in bars and cafes. We chose a quiet cafe for some coffee.

Today we had Christmas dinner at my brother's.

Their house was beautifully decorated.

I love my brother's beautiful glass tree collection.

We really enjoyed it. My sister-in-law is really a good cook.

 We had roast turkey. I loved the stuffing with whole chestnuts.

 This colourful salad was also very impressive and delicious. It looked like a birthday cake.
Layers of egg, carrot,beetroot and potato salad. Excellent!

 My mum's stuffed vine leaves of course!

 My brother made the sweets following our dad's tradition.

Pistacchio baklava and kadaifi. Kourabiedes and melomakarona and that chocolate cake is mine.

I hope you enjoyed yourselves today!

It's good to have a family Christmas!

Sorry if the title sounds a bit nostalgic to all those who spent Christmas away from family and relatives....

What I enjoy about Christmas is that first I am not tired because I don't work and second because we meet with the family.

(blurred photos of the tree...I was playing with the camera)
So on Christmas Eve after a short visit from my brother and sister-in-law I made some popcorn and then we watched IceAge4. It was great! I love children's movies that are fun to be watched by adults as well.

(The lights of Finland still shine over my sea glass gifts from around the world thanks to Johanna who sent me little light bulb replacements)
Then at midnight I opened the two parcels I had under the tree from Juliana and Marabeth. I will show you what was inside in a later post.

(I added some Christmas lights in a frosty bottle and that stands next to my caroler, another of Marabeth's gifts from previous years)
Bytheway I must remember next year not to show my cookies and chocolates photos on the blog before I actually give them because I spoil the surprise!My brother and sister-in-law knew what their sweets would be from the blog!Oooops!
On Christmas day I made my friend Areti's feta cheese pie for the first time to take to my brother's and it was a success!
Here it is...

So we had Christmas dinner at my brother's.

There was stuffed turkey of course with potatoes and lots of salads and appetisers.

Don't you find this type of broccoli strange?It was delicious though! And after some questions I looked it up. It is called Chou Romanesco and it is a Roman type of broccoli-cauliflower.What is most strange about this is that it's a natural fractal and has a Fibonacci number in its spirals. If you have read The DaVinci Code you understand!
I didn't take many photos of the food as I had my mind in eating it!LOL!
And then there were sweets...

My sister-in-law made Christmas chestnut log and my brother made baklava. Yummie!

"What shall I eat?" wonders my niece.

Of course I admired all of my brother's Christmas glass tree collection!
Hope you all had a great day!