The Polar Express

Our annual Christmas day where we go to the cinema and have food. We were back at Woolton Cinema this year to see The Polar Express. We went to the 11:30am screening which was full of kids and families. Me and Hannah have never seen the film before. I can't say I'm a fan of it and when it started I didn't get how it was a kids film as it was a bit creepy and wasn't that christmassy but did end up being christmassy towards the end.

After the cinema we went to The Coffee House pub as we had time to kill before afternoon tea at Coast. 

We exchanged our secret Santa gifts. This year everyone had a theme of what they wanted so their person had to buy them stuff from that theme they picked.

My theme was The Killers and or Bastille. David got me and this is what he got me...

He decided to go out the box and got me a book on serial killers and french themed things - French Fancies and a giant French baguette as Bastille the band is named after Bastille day which is France's national day which also happens to be the same day as lead singer Dan Smith's birthday - 14th July.

Not what I had in mind when I picked my theme and the baguette was a nightmare to carry round and needed explaining to people when I had it with me around the village.

I got Danielle - her theme was narwhal so I got her a narwhal mug which had a teddy in it from Dunelm. Danielle had Hannah - her theme was alcohol and holiday so Danielle got her a luggage tag and a green lime margarita cocktail set but didn't have enough in the budget to get her tequila. Hannah got Kelly - her theme was sloths so she got a mug, notebook and blanket that all had sloths on them. Kelly got David - his theme was alcohol and he wanted a pack of cards so Kelly got him a bottle of alcohol from Lithuania where she was at the weekend and a pack of cards. She also made him flapjacks which was an in joke we have.

Afternoon tea at Coast

We got a mix of smoked salmon and cucumber, egg mayonnaise, ham and mustard and cheese and pickle sandwiches.

Got scones with jam and clotted cream, Victoria sponge and we weren't sure what the other cake was. Like a sticky toffee/syrup cake.

Afternoon tea was nice. I wasn't fan of the ham and mustard sandwich - definitely don't like mustard. The cakes were alright too.

After we just went to the loft pub to have a drink. Our Christmas day is always a nice catch up where we're all together and is a tradition now. Hopefully see them again after Christmas before the new year before they head back down to London! I also got the best Christmas card off Kelly.

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Christmas Eve Eve

Cute Christmas day today - we went to The Elephant for lunch then went to Woolton Cinema to watch Miracle on 34th Street. 

Scarf - New Look

Coat - H&M

Dress -Zara Kids

Boots - Zara

Rocking the minnie mouse hair as I went the gym in the morning but didn't have enough time to wash it. I'm going in the morning anyway. But the hair isn't practical just wouldn't stay!

Hannah was late but David was actually on time - he was there first!

Kelly booked the table and thought she booked for the Christmas menu but turns out she didn't as you had to pre-order all your food so had to order from the normal menu! Was looking forward to a turkey roast :( 

Danielle got the Smoked Salmon Pizzetta.

Kelly & David both got the Winter Salad.

Hannah got the Chicken, Bacon & Avocado Sandwich.

I got the Salmon salad. 

The salad was nice but definitely was not worth £11.50! Danielle's pizzetta was nice, wish I got that instead of the pizza on Tuesday night!

Trying to get a selfie wasn't really working for us!

We exchanged our secret santa presents. We had a £5 limit and I was super proud of my presents since I'm the worst person when it comes to buying gifts!

Without realising we were giving our presents to the person to our left. So I had David, David had Danielle, Danielle had Hannah, Hannah had Kelly and Kelly had me!

I got David a photo frame with a photo of the 2 of us on the last day of school 6 years ago, a veggie recipe book, socks and a flapjack - we have a running joke over the socks and flapjack! 

Kelly got me a baking book and a whisk but made me open the whisk first which didn't make any sense! David sacrificing actually being on time forgot his present for Danielle when she reminded everyone in the group chat to bring it! He had to text his brother who's a taxi driver to bring it for her if he was around in the area.

After lunch we went to the cinema to watch Miracle on 34th Street. Poor Hannah was ready to walk out if it was going to be in black and white cos they went to see it 2 years ago but didn't realise it was the old one! 

Kelly ditched us for her family.

Danielle eventually got her present even though she chose it herself yesterday when they went shopping and bought it! We opened them in the interval and they were nice.

The film was good but I was so tired and full of cold I was falling asleep during it. Hannah did actually fall asleep for a good 20 minutes in the first half though. 

Liverpool Christmas Market

I finished work yesterday for Christmas at 2 and met up with Danielle, Kelly & David who were out shopping. We went to the Christmas market where they had mulled wine - well Danielle & Kelly did. David got a Bailey's hot chocolate.

Christmas market is really small and I thought it was rubbish. It has a nice back drop being outside St George's Hall but it's too out the way people just wouldn't go there unless they were getting the train from Lime Street! Liverpool needs to up their Christmas Market game.

I'm so ready for bed right now and it's only half 8! But it's starting to finally feel like Christmas.. 2 more days!

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