Christmas in Australia

Xmas here is more about doing nothing and relax instead of the german christmas spirit to be good and grateful. The 24th does not celebrated at all... sometimes families have a big christmas dinner though. We did not, but what we had was the handing out of presents on the morning of the 25th and a big lunch at a restaurant with the family (but without Chris as he drove up to Brisbane to his mother and other relatives), an older couple, what are good friends of Gina and their daughter with husband. The lunch was apparently really good, we had thousands of shrimps and lots of other good food from the buffet. But anyhow, the family was not as relaxed as I was used to. There was a bit arguments, but it was really nice though. After lunch, we went to another friends of Gina, who just got grandparents, so there was the baby with it's parents as well. Chris also caught up with us there. We had a couple of drinks and went home, where we only had a light dinner (pasta and pizza) and watched movies after that. The second boxing day was nothing special as well. We were home, watched some movies, but had no special dinner or anything like that. Unfortunately this year's christmas was a bit unlucky with the weather. Instead of sunshine and heat, it was rainy, but warm though. Anyway we could not jump in the pool or have a nice picnic at the beach, like it is done usually.