A Very Milford Christmas

Good day to all my beloved blog readers and Merry Christmas!

Here in Milford, we don't have fun things like snow and ice to play with so we have to make up our own fun. As a result, the people working the Blue Duck Pub came up with a fun plan which was for all the different businesses here in Milford to have their own Christmas parties with fun dress-up themes. We shared our Christmas party with Mitre Peak Lodge and Cruise Milford. The lodgies' theme was Angels and Devils while Cruise Milford's theme was The Future. The future, Conan? Yes, all the way to the Year 2000.

This is Hana from German making her Angel costume. Sophie (from Christchurch) had angel wings left over from a Halloween costume. It had blood on it so Hana had to cover the red marks with white cotton balls.


Jamie, from England made some delicious potato wadges for dinner that night and we dined and laughed. Ha ha ha ha! But I can't remember what we laughed about.


Jamie deceived us and told us that he wasn't going to go to the party, which made us say things like, "What?!?" But then, after disappearing in his room for an hour, he appeared again having covered his entire body with red paint. This is my second picture of him. The first one was taken in front of a red wall and you could hardly see him.


Ben (who is my boss and is from Holland) went as some kind of angel shaman person who wears one of those things that my sister used to hang over her bed as a cape and some white snow boots.


Here, Barbara (from England) is looking very angel-y.


Rowan, also from England, was some kind of X-Men 70s angel.


Matice, from Slovenia (which I challenge you to find on a map), went as a cool, muscular devil.


And I went as a scary transvestite playboy bunny devil with a black tail you can't see in this picture.


But you can in this one. It is made of a rolled-up laundry bag with rubber bands around it. I used some bent wire for my head band and adhered cardboard horns to it with staples and tape. The horns were originally black, but I made them red so they didn't look like ears as much.



On Christmas Eve, I worked behind reception and I spread Christmas cheer with a blinking Santa pin and hat that stood up on end. I told people it was held up like that by the sheer magnitude of my Christmas cheer. Then, when they felt the newspaper I stuffed inside it, I told them that Christmas cheer is dry and crumply. That night the Blue Duck Pub had Karaoke night, at which I sang The Alabama Song by The Doors, wearing the same hat, but I didn't get any pictures of it on my camera. :(


On Christmas Day, I woke up with surprise to find that Santa had visited us the night before. We received a nice card, a chocolate Santa, a voucher for more Internet, and a bottle of Fiordland Savignon Blanc.


On Christmas Day, all the lodgies had a secret Santa gift exchange. Here Barbara is receiving the graphite drawing of a Fiordland Yellow Crested Penguin I drew for her.



On Christmas Day Night, Red Boats (aka Southern Discoveries) Cruises hosted a free Christmas party for everyone. This is the Spirit of Milford Cruise ship that the party was on.


Here is what the party looked like on the back of the ship on the second floor. There was a keg and wine for us to drink. FREE!!!


We at a delicious and glutenous buffet followed by a candy chocolate ball fight. The old cranky woman who works for one of the other cruise companies looked as if she was annoyed by the candy ball fight. I was worried she was going to yell at everyone. Then I saw her secretly snatch a chocolate ball from her table. I was thinking there was no way.... then she threw it! It was awesome!!!


The Cruise ship party ended at midnight so the Milford Lodge staff building hosted an after party. Here you can see some festive people dancing around our gigantic Christmas tree.


So that is what we did on Christmas in Milford. I hope everyone else's Christmas was wonderful too! :)