Dreams do come true

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Well it has always been a boyhood bream of James' to see his beloved Liverpool play at Anfield and this weekend he finally got his dream. But before we headed up on Saturday morning we decided to enjoy the festive atmosphere in London and headed out to enjoy a touch of ice skating. London is great leading up to Christmas with lights and decorations everywhere and being cold it feels like Christmas is actually in the right season. Don't worry, we only tell ourselves that because we are jealous and missing the sun.

Anyway it was off to beautiful Sth Kensington where they have set-up an ice rink outside the Natural History Museum and surrounded by Christmas markets. We had a great time pretending to be Torvill and Dean but the form was not great. Still we managed to bump into Elle MacPherson so that was a bit of a bonus.

Saturday saw us catch the train up to Liverpool. On arrival we dropped our bags at the B & B and headed to the game. It was great to be at Anfield, so much history and atmosphere and of course some quality football from a team playing so well at the moment. The Reds won 2-0 and even Anna was heard singing and cheering which has further added fuel to the rumour that she is starting to enjoy watching sports. A great experience and hopefully one I may do again.

We spent the evening in the town which was buzzing being game day and of course the christmas shoppers. Liverpool is a lovely town and we spent a few hours wondering around before finding a great little place for dinner. Sunday was another stunning day so headed back into town to explore and did some final christmas shopping. The train journey home took all of 5 hours for varous reasons, I mean we could have flown to anywhere in Europe in that time but all in all it was another great weekend and another experience to add to the fast growing list.

And Christmas in two weeks, hope you all have great ones and you enjoy the sun and beach. We have booked to go to Egypt in Feb so thankfully we will have some sun then.

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Photos

Harrods
On the way to ice skating and Harrods all lite up

Christmas Markets
Outside the Natural History Museum and the markets with lots of cool stuff.

Get your skates on
Great location to do a few twirls, well we attempted to but didn't pull them off.

I said Brrrrr it's cold out here
The token James and Anna couple photo

Princess pat
Doing her stuff and rather elegantly too.

Skating
Apparently Anna was a better skater than me but of course I had to let her think that.

Get back to it
You should never stop in the middle to pose for a photo. There was carnage after this was taken. People falling left right and centre.

Finally made it
James before the game at Anfield and those famous words - "You'll never walk alone" Check out where's Wolly on the right.

Anfield at last
Inside the ground before kick off.

Game On
Action of the game and Liverpool dominating of course.

More action
The singing was great and of course 2 goals so the celebrations were wild.

A True Red
Outside the Club store

Hmmmmmmmm
Anna in the city centre. But what are the chances of getting her up the tower?

Get out of the way
James trying to be a tourist but guess who pops up in the way

Beautiful Liverpool?
Well you wouldn't guess it but they won going to be the 2008 Cultural city of Europe

Las Vegas
I thought we were in Liverpool. Anna does look rather confused.

Comments

[Nathan]

Neat
Time to give up on that Chelsea crap and go full on for Liverpool ... Also, another reason I hate Liverpool is that Newcastle came second to them for the Cultural Capital of Europe in 2008. Newcastle's way better! Nice Photos. You guys are livin' it up aye? Great to see. Love you's both. Be encouraged, Nathan

[Paul]

I lived in Newcastle for four years, and I'm from Liverpool. Newcastle is loveley but not a patch on the pool Glad you enjoyed yourself all the same