Zoolights

A few days after Christmas we visited Zoolights.  The zoo in DC is free to visit at anytime and over the Christmas period they decorate it with animal lights.  I think it's aimed at kids really but we went along with some friends and had fun anyway!

A busy December

You may have noticed that I'm way behind on updating my blog.  One of my laptops is still packed away somewhere with all the 2012 photos on it so I've taken a few screenshots from my flickr account which is why there is a bit of a weird selection of different sized photos in this post.

We had a busy month, we put up our Christmas tree as early as possible in December and I had a fun night out with my friend Melissa at a gingerbread house making evening.  

I had to go up to New York for work for a week and as it's our favourite time to visit New York Chris came up and joined me.  He had a great time doing his Christmas shopping and doing some touristy things.  He did a tour of the UN, walked the Brooklyn Bridge, took a ferry to Staten Island and went to the Natural History Museum.  There isn't much left in New York for him to see and do now!  Chris went and queued up on one day for some half price theatre tickets.  When he told me that he'd got tickets to 'Turn of the Dark' the Spiderman musical I wasn't too enthusiastic but I have to say that I thought it was actually brilliant!  The music is by U2 and really fits well with the show.  And the special effects with Spidey flying all around the theatre were fantastic.

Just before Christmas we had a visit from my lovely friend from the UK Abigail.  We went to the see the Christmas lights at the Mormon Temple and then the White House Christmas tree.  We had a wonder around the monuments, Abigail had seen the main ones before but she hadn't seen the MLK or FDR ones and we also took a trip to Arlington.

My birthday is on Christmas Eve and Chris and I decided to go downtown to see the Capitol Building Christmas tree then have lunch at Ping Pong.  Chris had ordered me the most amazing birthday cake from one of my favourite bakeries Something Sweet.  It was gingerbread cake with cream cheese frosting, absolutely delicious!

We spent Christmas on our own.  I spent all morning cooking the dinner and I was pretty impressed with myself when I put it all on the table.  But the second that I sat down I realised that I was feeling really ill.  I think I had been so busy in the morning that I hadn't really noticed it so as soon as I'd eaten dinner I lay down on the sofa then didn't move again!

As part of Chris' Christmas present I bought him tickets to see the Maryland Terps college basketball team play.  We went to the game a couple of days after Christmas, it was really good fun.  I preferred it to NBA games because it was much shorter!