Those Christmas lights!

Me and the Maxwells at the Diocesan Christmas party

The Barbados police band and the banner to welcome the new Archbishop

The decorated houses around Bridgetown

Independence Square

Parliament buildings

This was definitely the winner!

On Friday evening Michael and Dawn Maxwell and their two boys took me to the Barbados Diocesan Christmas Party that was being held in the swanky Grand Barbados Hotel in the bay area of Bridgetown. It was a very big event that was dominated by the big news that the Bishop of Barbados, John Holder, had just been elected as the Archbishop of the West Indies the previous weekend. It is fair to say that Barbados had been doing cartwheels since this news was announced as a Bajan has never before held the post. We did not get back from town until after midnight and I was up at 7am on Saturday to attend a wedding at Holy Trinity at 8am!

I have never heard of an 8am wedding before but the bride was no more that 15 minutes late and the whole thing was over by 9am.

I spent Saturday afternoon on the boardwalk in Christchurch and on the beach at Akkra. In the evening Dorothy's nephew Hal and his wife Margaret took us for a drive to see some of the outlandishly decorated houses around Bridgetown. Quite amazing!