Dear Santa!

It had to be done! Merry Christmas everyone! And before you ask, yes I think Santa was Asian... :)

Bright Lights in Stanley Park

Every year the BC Fire Fighters do a fundraising light display in Stanley Park for Christmas and the miniture train in the park decks out its tracks and you can go for a ride and have a look.

I swear most of the lights were older than me and unfortunately the video I took of the train ride was no good so sorry its photos only.

This was pretty cool :)
The train all decked out. The trip was really pretty cool and nicely done.

This is part of where you walk around.

Gingerbread house, yum!
Big kid with the big blowup snowmen.
It was definately cold enough for penguins!
Santa and Mrs Claus Big kid with the Big Guy.
This was in one of the ponds.
The Disney Gang.

Nothing tooo exciting but it was a nice way to get in the festive spirit plus we got to try roasted chestnuts for the first and last time!

1065 West 12th Ave

Welcome to our new place! Its pretty big by Vancouver standards, only bugger being that we don't have a laundry in the apartment only downstairs but thats no biggie. Its literally 150metres to work for me and only 2 extra blocks to work for Jesse.

The hallway, obviously...

Our bedroom. Its really big plus we have a massive walk in robe - mint!

Yes mums, we eat at the table :)
Our huge lounge...

And here's the big fella cooking me pancakes for breakfast - YUM!

Its really Christmas now!

It really feels like Christmas here now that we've put up our tree and downloaded 'Snoopys Christmas'!

You could go nuts here buying stuff cause its all sooo cheap ($5 for 100 lights!). I've managed to control myself but have bought us some special ornaments to remind of our time in Canada when we come home.

This is our welcome in the hallway...

Santa is our angel on top of the tree. I bought him at Granville Island and the lady personalised him for me by painting Vancouver in the star, Canada on his coat and 2007 on the brim of his hat.

Here's our snowy window. This snowflake transfer things are cheap as at the dollar shop and the snow flake lights are just too classy!

A snowflake - they actually look pretty cool at night against the dark.

Thanks Aunty Robyn and Uncle Ian for the nice reminder of home :)

As you can see we got this little dude at the Market in Seattle.
We got this at the Original Christmas Shop in Victoria when we went there in October. The shop is amazing!
Had to get the mini Starbucks snow globe - its just too cool!
And here it is.... Ta da! The tree skirt we bought is awesome, all felty and lovely. Thanks Mums and Dad for all the presents under the tree - they are all still wrapped - promise!

Christmas Elves

Thanks Megan for this great blog post!

Turn the volume up and click on the link below - enjoy!

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1230254409

White Christmas for us?

I woke up last Saturday to a very excited Jesse trying to wake me up to tell me it was snowing! We got about 3 inches.

This is the tree outside our lounge window all covered in snow. Unfortunately we got no other pics because 80mm of rain came the next day and washed it all away :(

Here's hoping for a White Christmas...

Santa comes to Vancouver

Last weekend was the Vancouver Santa Claus Parade. Us big kids went along with Emma and Gareth for a gander - they wanted to see if was better than the Invercargill parade... :) As you can see by the winter woolies it was about 3 degrees!

These are a range of pics of the floats. We were really amped that it was gonna be totally awesome but to be honest I've seen better... There must have been about 20 brass bands!

We didn't get much love from Santa...
How cute is this! He is a trained helper dog for disables people.

Yay Pooh!
Rudolph :)
Only the Vancouver Police would have a SmartCar! The Police Motorcycle guys did a pretty impressive display with their bikes - it was just like Eric Estrada on CHIPS in the '80's

The Mounted Police.
Pretty little dancing girls - they must have have been freezing!
A big chocolate Hedgehog - YUM! And yes they were giving free chocolate...