22nd-24th December

Merry Christmas Eve!

I thought I'd do a brief catch-up of what we've been up to, before I get too merry with festive cheer tomorrow and forget everything...

For the past few days we've been mainly frequenting shops, watching Christmas films and eating ice cream (not all at the same time!), we watched The Grinch and A Christmas Carol one evening, followed by The Holiday the next night. I won't go on much about those couple of days as I really want to get onto what we did today.

STAR WARS!!! We went to the cinema and watched 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' in 3D and it was fantastic! We got dressed up in Star Wars garb, I embarrassed myself by wearing my new StormTrooper socks and converse, but it had to be done. Liv wore her Yoda socks and like Debbie, wore her Star Wars top. 

Then this evening we went on a little trip...

You have heard of a Drive-Thru McDonalds, maybe a Drive-Thru Starbucks, but have you ever heard of a Drive-Thru Nativity? Well, it's a thing, and perhaps the highlight of my Christmas so far! We went a couple of years ago when we were here last, so we couldn't not go again. 


It's brilliant, they give you a CD to play in the car which narrates the story as you drive round and watch the live acting from the church goers. We even took the dogs with us, Cleo was fascinated and was pressed up against the window the whole time, she may have returned as a new dog. 

At the end they exchange the CD for some candy canes, wish you a Merry Christmas and send you on your way. Can't say I feel much holier, but I feel more festive, so I think that's a win. 

A couple of photos from the Drive-Thru Nativity...

Afterwards we took a drive around, finding Christmas lights to look at down side streets and cul-de-sacs. Some of them were incredible. One we found was insane, it was decked top to bottom in lights, even their boat parked on the drive was covered. They had the lights, inflatables and even someone standing outside in a Santa hat giving out candy canes to cars passing by- as we slowed he came over and gave us a few. For some reason my phone wouldn't focus so I couldn't take any photos or videos, but it looked amazing. 

One house I could take a photo and video of is one I saw a couple of years ago and it was as good as I remembered:

As you can see, they even decorated their rather fancy car... It was pretty impressive!

It was a good evening and I'm feeling ready for Christmas now. 

And it's taken me about an hour to write this because we're watching Notting Hill, so I'm going to go finish the film and then go to bed and see if Santa turns up at any point tonight...

So, goodnight and Merry Christmas, 

L
xxx