christmas 2014

Christmas Eve

Tim did at least half of the decorating this year and most of the eating.

Luke helped for the first time.

No space for a big tree, our fibre optic mini made things festive.  Tim and Luke helped with the streamer.

Tim was more than happy to go to bed on Christmas Eve having worked out that the sooner he fell asleep, the sooner Santa would arrive.

The boys trying out the newest Skylander game.

Luke was quick to combine Angry Birds and Jenga.

Seconds out of the boxes and both boys are deep into Mario on their new Nintendo 3DS game players.

Thank you family for all the wonderful presents for the boys.  This it the first year where batteries were not required, hopefully a new trend.

lights in london

We took a trip into London last week to see the city lit up for Christmas, and we were not disappointed.  We took the train to Waterloo, then the tube to a stop near Regent's Park where Paul likes to walk on his lunch.  We walked through a small section of the beautiful park, then found a pub on Baker Street, just a few doors down from the Sherlock Holmes museum.  We ate dinner and waited for the sun to set, then got on the 139 city double decker bus.  We started out just one seat behind the top front seats and half way through our journey got move to the very front.  What a show!  It was London's night for Santacon and we saw at least 500 people dressed as Santa.  The streets were filled with cars and the crowds were so thick that they were spilling into the roads.  It was great to be above it all.  The bus journey took us down Oxford Street and Regent Street, through Piccadilly Circus, around Trafalgar Square (an Englishwoman behind us told us the story of the Norwegian Christmas tree there), across Waterloo bridge and ended at Waterloo.  We were home by 7PM.