Today we picked up Stephanie and Greg from the airport in London and welcomed them to England with a rainy 4 hour drive up to York and day-old, pre-packaged sandwiches in a rest stop parking lot.
It's not because we're unusually cruel, but because EVERYTHING is closed on Christmas day—all public transport, almost all restaurants. We saw some random coffee shops that were open and were happy to find the rest stop bathrooms open.
We had a nice Christmas dinner with traditional British "crackers." They look like a toilet paper tube wrapped like a big piece of candy. You pull on both ends and they pop open, making a loud noise and releasing a paper crown you wear during dinner, a piece of paper with a joke, and a random gift (small plastic picture frame, bottle opener, key chain, small tool set).
Here's a great post-dinner photo of us in our crowns in front of our fake tree. Yes, we broke down and bought a cheap fake tree. We're not giving up on the real thing, but we are going to use this one every other year when we travel for Christmas so we don't leave a big stick of kindling in our house. We didn't really plan for it and didn't bring enough ornaments so we made origami stars and cranes.
Later we broke the law by eating mince pies for desert (click on this link for the archived post of ridiculous English laws). We hope you're all having a festive day!
3 comments:
What with the crowns, do you belong to the Queens Court?
Jamie and Patrick - Just wanted to say that I'm glad you got our news via Steph and Greg! You know we had to do something creative - glad you got it because we weren't sure you would! Anyway, Baby Martin is due in June and we're... excited/freaking out - guess that's how it goes. Glad to hear you're doing well - sounds like you all had a great time together.
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