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Because it's a never ending Christmas for us

I've blogged about our Christmas party with friends.  Now I shall blog about what K and I did over Christmas.  We had anticipated for a quiet Christmas but it turned out not so quiet after all.  In a nice way of course.

Christmas Eve


K and I decided to have a homely meal at home for dinner.  Plus, everywhere else is closed anyway.  What do we eat with the cold weather here?  Something probably not too far off from my already familiar German-Tews tradition of raclette, we decided on hotpot!  We had half day at work and I wasn't quite thinking like a local then because I suggested to K to attend the carol service at St Paul's Cathedral at 4pm.  We met in the city and had a coffee and cake before slowly making our way to the cathedral at 330pm.  We were so shocked to see a long snaking queue outside the cathedral, all the way round to the back!  We were told that we would not be able to get into the cathedral from where we were in the queue and were encouraged to join the rest at Paternoster Square where there was to be a live screening of the service.  We were thoroughly disappointed!  Standing out in the cold watching a screen wasn't quite the idea.. and after 15min, K strongly suggested we take the next train home and look forward to our Christmas eve meal.  Oh well.. I guess so because I was starting to lose feeling in my fingers then… too cold!

We love hotpot dinners!

We even had time for a snooze before I started laying the table for our hotpot meal.  It was also really nice to FaceTime Pris and everyone in the Tews family.  Physically apart but not quite that far apart mentally!

The advantages of having a multi purpose rice cooker


Do we look fresh faced? haha

A random thing.. we always hear of the song "I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus, underneath the mistletoe last night…"  Anyone knows how a mistletoe looks like?

Yup that's mistletoe with berries and all

Christmas Day

Christmas morning, we woke up to NO snow.  No surprise there.. me and white Christmas doesn't quite go together.  And it didn't help that for the second time, Germany was snowing loads when I'm not there for Christmas.  Why oh why…?!

Never mind, at least let's have a nice breakfast… I bought a panetonne (Italian fruit bread, traditional during Christmas) for breakfast.  It's massive and will last a good few days for us.  I also bought a wintry looking bouquet with fake snow on them as well, very pretty.





Breakfast over, we called home each and soon we needed to get ready for lunch at TW and YY's place near Canary Wharf.  In summary, it was a very simple day of sleep - eat - sleep - eat and eat some more.

After lunch we went home, again K snoozed and soon 5.30pm we needed to get ready for a Christmas dinner at JX and RX's.  Whoa… such a shiok lifestyle!  The Kims put in lots of effort for this 3 course sit down dinner.

We had some canapés as welcome nibbles, followed by homemade mushroom soup with cheese toast.  Mains was this huge roasted turkey with roasted vegetables.  Dessert was homemade Oreo cheesecake. Followed by tea/ coffee.  And wine and juice served in between.  Seriously these guys are too kind to us.  I joked saying we should have brought stretchy pants!

Dinner companions
JX and the roasted turkey

6 of us probably ate only half of the turkey

RX's homemade cheesecake

Of course we needed a shot at their Christmas tree

Boxing Day 

It was another day off for us and we ventured out to Bluewater, a massive shopping mall not too far from us.  K went to watch the Hobbit movie whereas I shopped around.  It was such a win-win compromise.  And no, I didn't go crazy either.  It was a very mild shopping trip for me.

Christmas Weekend

Saturday we stayed home and did nothing.  Love doing nothing.  It feels soooo nice.  I remember the Tews love to have some biscuits and tea in the afternoon and I followed suit, using the teacup set they bought for us last year, no less.  A touch of the Tews :)



If only everyday were like that!!

Today we met a couple friend for dim sum and we thought we'd do a walk along the river… after this pic was taken, we both thought running to the car and driving home was a better idea.  Too cold!





Ahh what a wonderful festive period it has been so far :)

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