Christmas in England, 2008

December 25th, 2008

2008 was an awesome year, I had never visited so many new places before and it was great being able to experience and see so many different things. This was the final trip for the year 2008 ended and we had a trip to England and France. We managed to get our 3 weeks' holiday and headed to England just a week before Christmas as Laughton wanted to spend Christmas at home, after spending a miserable Christmas in Bermuda the year before that all by himself; while I was partying away at the Playboy's Club in Las Vegas. Well, I did extend the invitation to him to join us in Las Vegas and San Francisco but I remember him telling me about wanting to experience something in Bermuda. Haha, I bet he regretted not taking the offer! Anyway, I was excited myself too because I have never really spent Christmas away from Malaysia. Deep down, I was hoping for a white Christmas but it did not quite materialize. More like an icy and chilly Christmas! It was a great pleasure meeting his family and spending time in Nottingham and we managed to extend our shopping to London and Manchester before having a weekend in Paris.

Fireplace that kept me warm. :) I thought it was really, really cold at one point I started to miss home. I think I told Laughton, I prefer it hot so I can turn on the air-conditioner. But now, after being home for couple of months, I dread the hot weather. It's like sitting in an oven all day long, it was really crazy! Look at all the presents lined up underneath, actually there were many more and it sorted of extended all the way even on the opposite room.

I didn't want to wake up and as you can see, I am pretty much not a morning-type of person. Well, here I was trying to open all the presents, one by one.

I was smiling from left to right simply because of this particular gift from Laughton! Yay!! The purse that we went looking all around London for this particular purse. Finally got it from Old Bond Street in London.

He wanted to take photos of each wrapping I unwrapped and I was just trying to get to the purse as quickly as possible but they probably had 4 or 5 wrappings before I got my purse!
Come on, hurry up. I was almost there!

Another smile..
Me purse!
Laughton's Grandad.
Laughton and his lovely Mum.