Christmastime in London

Here are a few pictures from the weeks leading up to Christmas...

Our group at work had an ugly Christmas "jumper" (sweater) party to kick off the Christmas season - so funny to see what everyone showed up in!

Grabbing dinner after work to celebrate Chels' birthday... at Barbecoa... best restaurant ever.

At my work's community service day - we painted and organised a low-income-family child care facility, and a few of us shopped for presents for the kids. This is Barry dressed up as Santa before the kids came in to get their presents (favorite bratty kid comment: "I thought Santa was supposed to get you things you wanted? I don't want this!" Hahaha)

Chels, Shika, Valerie and I took a quick weekend trip to Basel for a true Christmas market experience. It was really fun! This is me in front of the Basel Christmas market...

Ordering lunch - cheese filled sausages - TO DIE FOR!

Super cute - although the Basel market was on the miserable side because it was so cold and wet.

Day 2 - we took the train to Germany and hit up the Freiburg market - LOVED it.

Took a quick hike to get an aerial shot of Freiburg - beautiful!

Group shot

Back in London - went to Handel's Messiah at Royal Albert Hall

Photobooth shot from our Christmas party for work - black tie attire and all (although you can't tell from this picture)! These are my work peeps!! Spend a ton of time with these guys!

Pub dinner with Jay and Ellen last night - so fun to have friends from the OC in town!!!

48 hours and counting until I fly to Florida for the BEST ten days of the year... Merry Christmas everyone!!