Fantasy of Mud

Boxing Day. Typically a day where everyone looks at their presents and removes the boxes. Well that's my interpretation. When I got up this morning (at a lovely 9am ish time) Smallest had lovingly laid his presents on the sofa so he could see them all. He was practising his zentangling from a book we had bought him.

He had also made a little den for some of his presents using a cushion and a remote control. Very inventive.

He still has more presents squirrelled in his Christmas Bag. I wonder what he will do with those? After breakfast the boys played on the Wii U (Smallest came up and gave me a big cuddle and thanked me again for getting it for them), Moo and I watched videos of how to Arm Knit, make Pom-poms and ice a Gingerbread house and Huffle watched Stoke.

This time last year we were playing in the snow and making a snowman, but there is no snow yet and any previous snow has disappeared.

After lunch and lots of Loom Bandz Bracelet attempts by Moo, Smallest and I while Huffle and Small learnt our new game Alhambra (very good thanks Rumbleskins), we decided to get out for some fresh air. We walked for about an hour and a half through the village.

It was odd to be walking on a late December day with temperatures of around 2*, no snow, and the sun was out.

We walked while the boys scooted and were still out as the sun went down. The sky was spectacular.

Back home we had a quick dinner of yesterday's leftovers and then drove to Uxbridge where we witnessed the Fantasy of Lights show in the park. In the four Christmas' we have been here, we missed the first year because we didn't know about it, the second wasn't working the night we visited, last year there was the ice storm and power cut, so it was nice to finally see it this year. It was pretty amazing.

The whole park was full of lights with lit up pathways guiding us around the park past various lightshows by organizations and companies.

Unfortunately because there was no snow and the temperatures were warmish, there was a lot of mud (which some of us got stuck in a bit). There was also Christmas music.

I really enjoyed it and so did Moo and the boys. Huffle was too worried about the mud and his car I think to fully appreciate it. We all think it would be more magical in the snow but I don't think we are going to get much before the lights finish on the 31 December.

 

 

 

 

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