Christmas with a Santa Belly already

This year christmas has been lovely, we have seen both of our sets of parents and it has been really relaxing and a proper jolly time. I really hope our little princesses will get to share such lovely christmases with the family.

During the holidays we took a rather ambitious trip to Paris via Hanbury Manor and London, I was worried we would never make it, but despite the fact that in the last few weeks my tummy has got much much much bigger, and I have had my fair share of back pain with Sciatica which really had me crippled and stomach aches which similarly had me bent double in pain and not managing to get off the floor, we managed to get to Hanbury Manor, have a perfectly relaxing time, starting with afternoon tea with Richard's Mum, Dad and Aunty,  with lovely spa treatments and lunch in the Zodiac lounge almost 5 years to the day of our first date there :-)

I was really reticent about going to London and Paris especially since Eurostar had some real problems with the wrong kind of snow that stopped all the trains and was a complete disaster. But we went to to London, saw the Nativity Movie, which was hillarious.

I sat in the auditorium with my socks tucked in my boots under my chair and my feet wrapped up in my coat because my feet were sodden. Richard did tell me not to wear the fabulous purple boots in the wet, and alas alak he was right.

We went for a chinese in one of the crazy hanging food places in china town and then went on to see a show; Jersey Boys. We wouldn't have done so many things if we'd thought we'd make it to Paris, but as it happens, we seemed to slip through the net and arrive in Gay Paris just in time for a beautiful light show, a trip up and then down le tour Eiffel and then for dinner at a fabulous french/romaine bistro with a view of the tower. Dinner wasn't too expensive.

The next day Richard took a picture of my tummy and it had definitely grown. :-) We went for lunch at another nice little place with a prix fixe menu and then for a Bateau Vedette ride to Notre Dame and back and a taxi to the EuroStar that seemed to be waiting for us, back home and then to Baan Thitaya in Hertford and home.

It was the most perfect break in time for Christmas, which was also lovely.

So my little ladies, have been taken to Paris even if they haven't seen it :-)