Wishing you all a very merry Christmas from here in Washington DC. We paid a visit to the National Christmas tree at the Ellipse yesterday, just outside the White House. The tree is surrounded by miniature trains as well as smaller trees representing each state and district of the US.
The girls also visited Santa's Workshop, where they had their photo taken with Santa, as well as Mrs Claus. Notice the 'niceness' meter on the wall behind them!
We enjoyed a Christmas Eve dinner at our friends Ben and John's and then it was home to leave out food, drink and drawings for Santa,as well as the reindeer food.
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| Reindeer food - always popular with reindeers at Christmas! |
We had a lovely day today, even though it was much quieter than usual, and colder! The girls loved opening their Santa sacks, presents from mummy and daddy and their cousins.
We were all so excited to watch snow starting to fall as we ate breakfast this morning, and then on our way down to Christmas mass at St. Peter's we were treated to more snowflakes falling - they were tiny but as they landed on you we could see some tiny little, intricate patterns in each flake. They were beautiful!
We enjoyed a lunch of roast duck with cherry sauce, roast potatoes and green beans, with an apple crumble for dessert, all by our lovely fire. Ahh.... a winter Christmas!
It has not snowed much this afternoon, but they are predicting another big snowfall tomorrow. Lovely, but let's just hope now we can fly out of here on Wednesday to Paris and then back home in just under 3 weeks now!
Merry Christmas to everyone again! We hope you all had a lovely Christmas.
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