After a year off of our big holiday trips (Spain in 2014, New Mexico in 2015, and Canada in 2016), we were ready to book another big family vacation over Christmas. We spent December 21st through 29th in the United Kingdom, exploring London, Windsor, Stonehenge, Bath, and Edinburgh while there. You'll see a lot of similar pictures from our trip that were taken on my big camera, but there are some in here that were only on my iPhone. We got first class sleeper chairs on the overnight flight there (heaven!). The day we went to see
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child I did not have my camera because you can't bring them in to the show. We went to the British Library before the show and between the two shows (it was 5 hours split over two shows) we had a beautiful Indian dinner at Dishoom (not photographed, but worth mentioning). We went to Midnight Mass at Westminster Abbey--no photographs allowed during the service, but I did sneak a photo of the ceiling with my phone before it began. Christmas Day we had Afternoon Tea at the Ritz Carlton. The blog will be bombarded with collages of our full trip soon. This is just a teaser!
Also, leading up to our trip, December was pretty busy. We fit in the
Potted Potter show, a funny 90-minute recap of the entire Harry Potter series (a refresher I figured before we were to see
Cursed Child while in London). We also saw Agatha Christie's
Mousetrap for a little research for our trip (it's the longest continually-running show in London). Jack was so bored at that one, though, he spent the entire time pulling out a loose molar that somehow ended up under the seat of the person in front of him... And Ella had some artwork on display and entered into a competition through her Visual Arts class at school. We unfortunately didn't do a lot of our traditions for Christmas at home (we did decorate, for the record), but fortunately it was Christmas overload in London. Everything was beautifully decorated and festive.
