Thursday, January 1, 2009

Xmas 08-09

We started out at The Spirit House Restaurant with an interesting companion


All anticipation


Mum, Cousin Ric, Dave


Uncle Fred, Cherie, Andrew


I recommend the fish


It’s a beautiful setting


We took on Mt Coolum and won


Hot!


Shade was hard to come by


Back home .. Andrew tried out the latest in fashion


Ric & Kate


Mum got acquainted with the lense


A new engineer in the making


Regulation selfie


Fred cooked up a storm


Red claw


For the main celebration (New Year’s Day) it was mud crab – freezer to calm them down ..


Then these monsters were …


… straight in the pot


Hammer is the choice of eating utensils


Team Sheppard prepared to feast … did I mention the salad??


Kate & Paul


Prawns to fill any holes ..


Mum, Libby, Mitch


The eater becomes the eaten?


Loads of meat in these claws


A couple of bottles of wine to flush it down


Libby and Tracey



Libby ensured her famous roasted veggies were consumed



Thomas was held back from the wreckage


Fred and Ric on deck


Steve and Lib


Contemplation of the last fling at Dilly Court


We approached the huggy part of the day


Kate enjoyed the wine


Mitch brought the boys over


Family get together


On a deck full of memories


The imports to the Sheppard/Winter clan aligned


Fruit & cheese to finish


desert


Thomas helped straighten the camera


All to no avail


laughs


And dress up


Paul brought out photos of the latest surf trip and gathered the fam around


While we forced ginger in any fashion on kate


The one family test she performed below par on


One new Sheppard clan got close


But stomach raspberries will always take precedence


Steve and Paul got down to talking men’s business


I don’t even want to guess what Tracey and Kate discussed


Winter boys


The latest trick


Of a cheeky nephew


Give me 5