Christmas and New Year!

We always knew that it would be really hard to be away from our family and friends over the festive season, but thanks to modern technology we were able to attend christmases in England, Wales and Australia and a New Years Eve party in North Wales with some of our closest friends! Christmas morning we visited the people whom we stayed with when we first arrived. They used to live in the UK and as we have friends in common we always feel close to home when we're with them so it was great to spend time with them over Christmas.

We had decided to start a new tradition as we were in a new country, so on christmas eve at 9 pm we had opened our first present of Jingle Jamas, a pair of pyjamas that we were to wear that night and for when we opened our stockings the following morning.

We awoke to a breakfast of croissants and coffee, and below is a picture of our table setting! Also is a picture of the Christmas cakes I did again this year. Unlike the UK though they were a lot more work, and although I love making them, I always prefer to spend my time decorating them, rather than making them. The ingredients cost Almost $100 per cake and I even had to make my own marzipan (it sounds simple but it wasn't!), but as always I had a great day in the kitchen!

We went out for lunch Christmas day and when we got home we opened the remainder of our presents!

For New Years Eve we had booked to go for a meal at the 360 restaurant at the top of the Calgary tower, a rotating resturant that gave us amazing views of the city all lit up and even a few fireworks.

After Dinner we headed to Muriettas, a bar that we had been to before which had a great live band!

The band!

We danced the night away til the early hours theheaded home on the C-Train (that, as it was new years was running all night) and had a cold walk home from the station in (-36 with windchill) but it was worth it!

As you can see in the picture below (it was taken just round the corner from our house after our walk back) Sophies hair is frozen! Considering the temperature though only bits of us that were slightly cold were Sophies' knees and my toes, so we must be getting used to all this cold weather!