Happy New Year to all of our friends and family back in Australia!
We can't believe it is 2012 already. I must say though, I am very relieved that it is a new year. 2011 was such an enormous year for us and I was exhausted by the end of it.
Moving to London has been one of the biggest and best things we have done so far. It is so refreshing but it can be hard work. We've been gone for 9 months now and are definitely settled and ready for what 2012 has in store.
We had a really fantastic Christmas with our London family. The lead up to Christmas was both exciting and hectic - full of catch ups, drinks and dinners and embracing English tradition (like minced pies). E also went to see the Nutcracker ballet in true Christmas spirit (which was absolutely stunning) and we even had time for an English tradition - the Pantomime. We saw Dick Whittington which starred the one and only Dame Edna (the self professed gigastar).
On Christmas Eve we went to Winter Wonderland and on Christmas Day we had a fantastic large lunch with turkey, roasted vegetables, mulled wine and eggnog. We were a little disappointed that it didn't snow but grateful at the same time because the weather was quite mild. Later in the afternoon our Brisbane friends joined us for drinks and a game of Thieving Secret Santa.
We had a really lovely relaxing day in good company (which made us all forget that we were a million miles away from loved ones and definitely less lonely). Waking up just S and I on Christmas Day was strange and to counteract that we started a new tradition of stockings so we had double the amount of presents to open.
We hope that everyone had a really lovely Christmas Day back home. More on our epic New Years Eve coming up.
E&S
xoxo
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