Christmas In Adelaide

24th December

We spent a couple of nights at the Hahndorf resort in the lead up to Christmas. Hahndorf is an old German settlement in the Adelaide hills and retains it's German heritage with numerous German Bierhauses and shops. Had a great meal of Pork Knuckle and Wurst with an apple strudel desert at the German Arms Inn.

We went out to Lobethal which is a small country town which really goes to town with their Christmas celebrations and is famous for the lights.

They even had numerous sessions of a nativity play featuring local kids and animals.

The kids first Christmas away from home and we are staying at a van park in Adelaide right near Glenelg.
Arriving at Adelaide Shores Caravan Park on Christmas eve, it was so busy with nearly every site taken. The Caravan Park is huge with a Golf Range, Putt Putt and some lovely swimming pools. Apparently people book 10 years in advance to reserve their favourite spots, there are even people staying here from only a couple of kilometers away.

We headed for the shops, not wanting to go as we knew it would be crazy but the girls were worried that they had not found Santa to tell him not we were not going to be home at Christmas and what Caravan Park we are staying at.  Poor Santa was still in David Jones so we got our photo taken as well.

We had a lovely small tree that the girls decorated and Nathan bought some fairy lights for the front of the van.

Christmas day was a quite day, probably the quietest Christmas we have ever had, where the girls opened up their presents and we had a lovely day around the pool and having a lunch where we all picked our favourite food. The girls chose the three desserts which was pavlova, strawberries dipped in chocolate and biscuits,  We also cooked some lamb chops and had some lovely prawns.