Chuck had previously called his grandmother a few days\u00a0earlier to warn her that he would see her for Christmas but I was still slightly concerned about the prospect of her having a heart attack when he pressed the intercom and informed her that he was outside her property.\u00a0 Chuck had described his grandmother as a very sweet lady and she was awesome.\u00a0 He showed me around the area and we decided to get cinema tickets for us and his grandmother (Claire) to see a movie in the afternoon.\u00a0 Although Claire was meant to be going to the Christmas dinner organised by the residential centre she returned saying that there was some kind of\u00a0mix up with the seating arrangements.\u00a0 I still think that she was being polite as she didn’t want us to miss out and be by ourselves.\u00a0 So, with grandma in her glad rags and lippy we headed out and got takeaway from a burger joint.\u00a0 Back at the house we ate and Chuck and I chatted whilst Claire had the obligatory apres Christmas dinner nap, albeit\u00a0a burger consumption\u00a0and not a turkey dinner with all the trimmings!<\/p>\n
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When Claire woke up, with the assistance of Chuck of course, we headed to the cinema to see “Four Christmases”.\u00a0 It was funny and slightly better than I had expected although I wasn’t overly impressed that Chuck thought it was a good idea to take me to a movie which continuously reminded you of the importance of family at Christmas time for my first ever Christmas out of the U.K.!\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Back at Claire’s house she, rather sweetly, gave me a necklace and, after a bit more exploring in the car, we had an early night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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