Posted in Christmas, Family, London on Dec 31st, 2009 2 Comments »
Sunday the tube was up and running again. Really, it’s the best and fastest way to travel in the city. We decided to take an evening stroll downtown to see the Christmas lights at Oxford and Regent Streets. They were really neat and big, but the crowds were just so thick, it wasn’t too much [...]
Posted in Christmas, Family, London on Dec 29th, 2009 2 Comments »
Santa found us . . . and left his signature! We had a great day being ‘home’ as a family. The kids had a great time enjoying their gifts and then enjoying our traditional Christmas meal of roast beef, roasted potatoes, and Yorkshire pudding with Christmas crackers. We were really surprised to find that London [...]
Posted in Christmas, Family, London on Dec 29th, 2009 No Comments »
Christmas Eve was full of hopes that Father Christmas would find us in London. Even though there were some fears he wouldn’t, we still threw ourselves into the preparations. The morning was spent with Chris and I taking turns going out to finish last minute shopping. We also took some time to narrow down some [...]
Posted in Christmas, Kids, London on Dec 20th, 2009 2 Comments »
For the first time since Chris finished grad. school, we were invited to a work party. Not just any work party, but it was only for the kids of the employees. This was actually during our second day here, when we were experiencing major jet lag, but after awhile, the kids harnessed some energy and [...]
Posted in Christmas, Kids, London on Dec 20th, 2009 4 Comments »
One of the sad things about moving right before Christmas is that we weren’t able to decorate or set up our tree at the beginning of December. As a matter of fact, our tree, decorations, and all our ornaments were packed and are slowly making their way here by sea, arriving the end of January. [...]