Christmas and New Years 07-08

So now for all of you who have been asking how our xmas and new years was this is for you. I know it’s a bit out of order (there is still 2 weeks of our European trip to go) but I thought I’d slip this in anyway.

Christmas was pretty low key, just me and Rach at home with our little tree. A leg of lamb and bottle of red for me and ample roast veggies for Rach.

On the 29th James F had come to stay with us for the new years break mainly in anticipation of the Edinburgh hogmany festival and since it was more of a holiday for him he wanted to go and see Glasgow for a day as well. Sweet I thought, we haven’t been there yet, what a good idea James. Well if you ever have the privilege of going to a city with Mr. Fletcher then ask him this question first. “James why do you want to go to ‘place x’ is it a) you want to walk around the city and see the sights (which I assumed) or b) do you want to go for a bit of a shopping trip. When we arrived I found out it was more of answer b). Ah well after a good few hours of James and Rach (who was loving the shopping trip) dragging me around different shops I put my foot down and made us walk out to the Glasgow Necropolis and all of the overindulgent graves and tombstones of the old Glaswegians.

Back in Edinburgh on New Years Eve Jasmine and a flat mate from Birmingham also came to stay for the festivities. This stated with a party at one of our mates places in the east end. I think they were a bit sick of the cold weather as the theme was a beach party, where if you wanted entry you had to dress up in beach attire.

ohh, nice face rach

From the beach party we headed out to the hogmany festival street party where we were greeted by another 300,000 new years revelers. Princess St was packed and what would have been a quick 5 min stroll to the middle of the st ended up taking 30min, all holding hands so we didn’t get lost in the crowd. It was a bit lame just standing there waiting for the countdown but once it got going and the fireworks started it was pretty cool.

aparently james forgot that we had left the beach party

why is james trying to lick me, i just don't know

It hadn’t been all that cold since arriving back in Edinburgh only 1-5 degrees compared to the negatives of central Europe, but after getting over the New Years celebrations the weather decided to take a bit of a turn. But not really in a bad way more of a nice snowy sunny way. So we decided to go for a bit of an ice skate in the festival grounds

come on james, you have to give up the beach theme, it's snow for heavans sake

Anyway that was our Xmas / New Years 07-08; low key gullton on the 25th, fooling Jamie into shopping trips in Glasgow, massive parties on new years eve and running about in the snow.