Speaker 1: Christ Yeah, welcome friends to the Christian o'connells show podcast.
Speaker 2: Very Christmas, everyone.
Speaker 3: My favorite Christmas tradition has become over the last three years.
Speaker 3: We do this thing on Christmas Eve with my family,
Speaker 3: which is just simply a book exchange. So you do it,
Speaker 3: Chris Kringle, but it's got to be a book that
Speaker 3: you get for somebody else and it's a sweet tradition.
Speaker 3: It actually comes from Iceland or Sweden or something like that.
Speaker 3: So then on Christmas Eve we all get a brand
Speaker 3: new book and we sit around and read the books,
Speaker 3: drink hot chocolates, play Christmas music. It's very sweet and
Speaker 3: wholesome and I encourage everybody to do the same.
Speaker 2: Patsy, what do you like to do over Christmas?
Speaker 1: I love to or all of our family likes to
Speaker 1: go down to Frankston Foreshaw where they do the sand sculptures.
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen that?
Speaker 1: Every year and they've just moved it to Bonio so
Speaker 1: it's just a little bit out, but it is worth
Speaker 1: the drive across Melbourne to go see these. They have
Speaker 1: a theme ex to you one year with Disney and
Speaker 1: they do all the principle. These things are massive.
Speaker 2: How did he do.
Speaker 1: It's a special I think they put a special glue
Speaker 1: in with the sand, I think, and then they spray
Speaker 1: it quite regularly with like like.
Speaker 3: A mist of water.
Speaker 1: I guess to keep keep bombing it together.
Speaker 2: I think it's just a list of water.
Speaker 1: Close it down, build You see them like waving the
Speaker 1: water across. So that's one of our favorite things to do.
Speaker 1: The other is to hit the road and go back
Speaker 1: to our old area of northeast Victoria and all the
Speaker 1: wineries there.
Speaker 4: Love it.
Speaker 1: Just Brown Brothers and Oxley and mill Low and all
Speaker 1: the cheese shops and the mustard shops.
Speaker 2: Lovely doing a taste.
Speaker 4: And at lunchtime when the sun's out and he got
Speaker 4: it all over the vines.
Speaker 2: That is beautiful.
Speaker 1: It's just it's God's country.
Speaker 3: It's beautiful.
Speaker 1: And swimming in the rivers there is introducing Audrey to that.
Speaker 1: She's always used to, you know, chlorinated pools. It's like
Speaker 1: where you get.
Speaker 4: In the river.
Speaker 1: That's how we've led to swim, just that sort of
Speaker 1: down to earth.
Speaker 4: Country living a love it one thing we always doing
Speaker 4: Christmas Eve, and we'll be doing it, says the kids
Speaker 4: who are very young now, the older teenagers on Christmas Eve,
Speaker 4: we're all open a present and it's like pajamas and
Speaker 4: they were then all gone to put them on, and
Speaker 4: we're ready. We're dressed for Christmas. Eaching not matching. No, well,
Speaker 4: my wife does someth well, the daughters get like real
Speaker 4: nice sill ones, and I'm always some sort of dweeby
Speaker 4: dad thing, like some harmle old check pants.
Speaker 2: Like one year they were like really tight. That's my story.
Speaker 2: It was the end of last year's COVID. I remember
Speaker 2: sitting down them and my backside split.
Speaker 3: On pajamas, which are usually pretty forgiving.
Speaker 4: Well, well these, I'm sure these were a fashion thing.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's our thing on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 4: Christmas to me, it isn't about the main day, Christmas Day,
Speaker 4: I love my favorite day of the year. It would
Speaker 4: always be Christmas Eve. I love them moment on wake up.
Speaker 4: I'm actually more excited on Christmas Eve than I on
Speaker 4: Christmas Day. I love Christmas Eve. But they could bottle
Speaker 4: what that excitement is. And I know it changes as
Speaker 4: you get older and that you'll never grab what it
Speaker 4: was like again as a kid, but.
Speaker 2: I still love it.
Speaker 4: It's the potential of what's coming the next day and
Speaker 4: it's almost here.
Speaker 2: That is what I love. The Christian O'Connell Show podcast