Xmas in Xi'an?

Recollections / highlights of 2006 Christmas Eve / Day included the following…

• Downloading Christmas songs from late Christmas Eve (I now have a great reggae version of “Santa Claus in Coming To Town” called “Santa Claus is Ska-ing To Town” – tops!)
• Getting under an hours sleep before having to catch a bus for the airport at 5am Christmas Day.
• Having our flight delayed by 2 hours.
• Flying from Hong Kong to Xi’an only to be flown back to Hong Kong to due to extreme fog conditions in Xi’an (5-6 hours in a plane + another 2 to navigate customs exiting and re-entering Hong Kong).
• Getting a free nights accommodation inc; a free turkey dinner with a cointreau chaser in the Hong Kong Airport Regal Hotel.
• Seeing Eliza Lovell, Michaela Cantwell, Patrick Duggin and James Edwards on the Australia Channel teaching good business meeting etiquette.
• Losing my camera somewhere in all of that.
  

I hope people had a good one as well.