Well here we are in December, and we were able to get a tree up for Christmas! Now for those of you who have seen our trees in the past...we know, it's not as grand as those but we think it's cute nonetheless. It was funny though, because before we got the lights and ornaments on it was looking a little bit more like a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree LOL However, we do think it turned out pretty well.
It is unbelievable how time just flies...it seems like it was just yesterday that we had moved here to London, but that was 8 months ago. Crazy!!! I know...I've been terrible at keeping the blog up. I really have no excuse other than I just haven't been doing it. I do hope to start posting in this more frequently. I don't know if I'll get to it every day, but I do hope to post more frequently than every 3 months LOL
It does feel a little weird being over here during the holidays. For those of you wondering, we were able to do a 'proper' Thanksgiving Dinner. We invited two of our friends over for dinner...Joseph who is another expat from San Fran and is on the volleyball team that I played on briefly, and the other is our friend Martin who is British. Martin was very very excited because it was the first time he was invited to a proper American Thanksgiving. So we had to cook a turkey and all the trimmings...I even ended up cooking a green bean casserole to give him the true experience. What is funny, is that we found a couple of specialty stores here in London that stock a lot of American products, so we were to find everything we needed. One is a store called Partridges and the other is WholeFoods. Yes, it is the same WholeFoods that are found in the States and we have the only one (for the time being) about 3 blocks away from our flat. We found our turkey at WholeFoods and brought it home. When we were getting ready to stuff the turkey, we unwrapped it and something just didn't look right...we had a turkey that had no legs! We kinda chuckled, and thought it was weird but went ahead and stuffed and cooked it nonetheless. When we served dinner and said we were a little taken aback about the turkey having no legs...Martin didn't blink an eye and said "Well, that's because you bought the crown and not the whole bird", like it was the most normal thing in the world. It must be a British thing!! LOL Anyways...the dinner turned out really well and we had a really nice and memorable day.
I think that is all I'm going to write about right now...in the next couple of days I'll try and update you all on our travels over the past couple of months and also the plays/musicals we've seen (there has been quite a lot).
