Its beginning to look a lot like xmas

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Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere we go....c'mon, sing it with me (actually I dont know any other words, so forget it, better stick to rudolph songs)

Last weekend London switched on around 250,000 xmas lights, so after voting in the state election (yes we voted) we walked around for several hours admiring the lights and decorations from 'The Strand', through to Covent Garden, Leicester Square, Picadilly Circus, Regent street and Oxford Street (yes we walked all that way, its surprisingly compact and easy to get around) then eventually caught the tube home.

Anyway, we stopped for a squiz at the open air ice-skating rink (its just like in the movies) tucked into an all you can eat bar (we're already fat, why stop now) then tried to justify that much food by walking it off over several hours.

London is even more fabulous at this time of year, honestly Melbournes 'Myer' windows just dont compare to the london lights. Its apparently been a very mild winter here so far, its averaging about 13c most days, so it doesnt look like they'll get snow this xmas.

I honestly cant remember if we did anything else last weekend, I'm sure there was something, I just cant think of it, therefore I dont have anything else to write about.

This week we have a xmas party to go to with my recruitment company (all you can drink...arrgghh) and we're off to the Blackrock tennis tournament on Friday night, its supposed to be quite prestigious as its held in the Royal Albert Hall so we'll hopefully get some more pics of that (and maybe a couple of drunken pics from the xmas do).

I can not believe there's only 3 weeks til xmas, thats 3 weeks til we fly to Prague and try not to die from frost bite...woohoo!!

Take care til the next blog!

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Photos

Just like in the movies
This is one of Londons open air ice skating rinks that appear over xmas. Apparently there's several of them around the city.

Ahh, aint it pretty
Thats the ice skating in behind the nice big Chrissy tree.

Covent Garden
One of my personal fave places in London, Covent Garden also had a big tree, for all the outdoor diners to admire.

Regent St
Not bad are they!

Is that an elf???
One of santas little helpers does a dance in the street!

Go Hamleys
Our fave toy store has gone all out with the decos!

That one is definitely an elf!
I look like I'm about to be run over by a 'ghost' bus...what a freaky pic!

Thats what I call going nuts with the decos
I'm sorry but that can only be described as a shit-load of lights!

posers
The guy taking this photo for us, was more worried about making sure our feet were in the pic, rather than the lights...nice job man!

More lights
There's that freaky ghost bus again!