The Gathering

My Cousin Ben and Me (I am so short) THE GATHERING

The gathering started at sunset with bottles of champagne, familiar faces and lots of talking and laughing. After more than 17 years, I am sitting with my family who have flown in from all over the world to have Christmas together. I didn't realize how many girls there are in my family. Its dominated by girls. We all have different accents, which is hilarious. English, Australia and American accents float around the table and for a moment I sit back and listen to all the sounds and observe all the personalities and I realize that we absolutely come from the same crop. Its strange that even though our lives have been so different, we are so similar.

The party didn't end until 2am this morning and like good Australians, today we are taking it easy and tonight we'll start all over again!

Oh..and if you haven't noticed, I am the shortest of them all. I don't know how that happened, but as you can see from the photo of me standing next to my cousin Ben, I am tiny......