Family Christmas Camp 2010 - 4th Dec

[suspectmonkey]

How cold did it get in the end?  I saw -6 on the way home.

Well our meteorological expert had his thermometer showing 3 deg. but I reckon either the minus sign was broken or it was reading in Fahrenheit

Anyone got any photos yet?  I'm dying to see them!

[Dowser]

it was a good night - though I was bricking it the whole time thining about taking Drybag Junior back down in the dark.
Thanks to Chuck, Kat and Bo for making that a lot easier.

How cold did it get in the end?  I saw -6 on the way home.

It was great you could join us and the Ham was very very tasty.  We weren't able to get our hands on a thermometer so we can only guess how cold it actually got.  To be honest it could have been -20 for all we know and wouldn't have noticed, thanks to the roaring fire, copious amounts of mulled wine and great company.

Definately one to remember.  I'll pop a few photos up later.  I was soooo tired yesterday I barely got my gear unpacked, never mind uploading my photos.

Thanks to everyone involved for such a great night  

[Dowser]

Here we go... photo time.  I seem to have missed caputuring some of the cracker pulling, food munching, mulled wine sipping action but hopefully Chris our other resident photograper will have caught some of the action.  I can't believe I didn't even take a picture of my plate before getting tucked in... Doh!  Tell you what, I wish I had it sitting in front of me right now  

The Turkey that was devoured on the side of Donard

My Hot Water Bottle - 10 Weeks old and glad to have arrived at the Campsite



Chris preparing the Spuds



Sally finds herself the comfiest spot on the hill and settles down for the night



Decorations time





My bed for the night, decorated accordingly



Chuck... He was one popular guy on Saturday.  He kept the Mulled Wine flowing all evening






























Redleader Junior sleeping of his Crimbo dinner



Nobody went without... Even Sally had a Christmas dinner of her own


















Landy could smell the Turkey Dinner from Downpatrick and arrived about 9pm with his knife and fork at the ready




The morning after... Everybody seemed to make it through the night  

[LennyJ1]

Must of not taken a photo of the phone call for the port?

[chris]

Must of not taken a photo of the phone call for the port?

There was a distinct lack of port and a cheeseboard, the night was pretty much ruined in my opinion! I may have a few pics of my plate i'll have a look and see how the came out.

[Kat]

Haha!    Love the photos!!

[suspectmonkey]

Yep, cheers for posting up the photos!  Gave me a laugh looking at them recalling some of the conversation...

[Matthew]

Ha ha cheese board. Photos really capture a brilliant night in the hills with mates.

As for conversation all I'll say is


Head torch
      &
Mince pie

Fun times.

[ChuckMcB]

Couple more snaps:





Excellent meal folks, good fun. I'm still a wee bit broken.

[LandyLiam]

Grrrrrr, I'm stuck in a hotel with only blackberry internet access so I can't see the pics

I thought we were never going to mention the mince pie incident again!

[fourman]

good food ,good craic,good company, my wife didnt believe that we had a full xmas dinner ,cooked on a log fire,complete with after dinner mints .All that was missing was the inlaws!!

[Matthew]

I thought we were never going to mention the mince pie incident again!

It was far too funny a conversation not to chat about again, but perhaps not publicly.

[RedLeader]

What did I miss!

I thought we were never going to mention the mince pie incident again!

It was far too funny a conversation not to chat about again, but perhaps not publicly.

[Matthew]

Check your PM

[whoRya]

Looks like a cracking trip.  I did get a little confused as to why Dowser changed his outfit for every other photograph, then it made sense.......Hi Fourman.