Christmas morning delivery!  Connie surprised us with home-made cashew cracker jacks and we surprised her by being away when she came by. 

Off to Christmas dinner at Joya Del Mar

I planned to walk the 3+ miles to dinner and talked some folks into going along.

Connie, Jane, Jill, Lisa, and Hannah-Ruth

Greg , Quinn and Roberto were a bit further behind.

The sun fought with the coming rain to make lovely colors.

Stopping to take some photos; we arrived just before the rain came.  But it was a brief shower that passed quickly.

The “man in charge” and his staff did a great job!  These were the shrimp/avocado cocktail-salad.

Connie and Jane with a glass of pre-meal punch.

Connie and Irene in the dress she’d knitted and Connie in her Black Dog shirt.

Connie and Gwen

(Here’s a Connie, there’s a Connie, Everywhere’s a Connie Connie)

It was beautiful inside and out…….

The wine coolers changed colors. Cool!

Soup, shrimp cocktail, huge egg roll, main meal and then dessert required lots and lots of silverware!  Randal and I chose turkey, the other option being lamb so tender it fell from the bones.  The bones went home for the marina dogs.

Back deck with a pool for the summer time diners.

The beach

Looking toward Yacht Marine in the distance

Men in Hats, Randal (sans glasses) and Paul with his fedora!

Both lovely men in lovely hats but they couldn’t compete with the woman below!

She wasn’t with our group but would have fit right in.  It wasn’t her hat but I’d seen her try it on so asked for a photo and she kindly ( and bravely) obliged. 

Cheers!!!!!

Christmas cracker crowns!  Connie Jane and Tom.

Ours was the slightly rowdy table !

“Mayor Colin” and the lovely Jane from Hydeaway.  Colin handles the morning net fairly ofter, shows the Monday movies, has office hours at the coffee shop every morning;  hence the term “Mayor.”

Nadida, the agent who helps us all with the Turkish rules and regulations, Bill and Joan!

They were great and sang lots of crowd favorites.

A very Edward Hopper – ish image of the staff taking a well-deserved quite time.