Merry Christmas Eve!

It's Christmas Eve here in Londontown. No snow to report as yet but there is a ton of rain available.

*Sidebar* Please feel free to come along and get some if you'd like!

Sisi is here with me and it's been lovely having her here. It's helped me with my homesick-ness that has been really bad this past month. It's my first holiday away from home and I am absolutely missing everybody back home. I'm missing my grandmother and my sister and brother the most. However, this is why Skype was invented!

Since Sisi has been here, we've been out a little bit but not a lot as it's been a lot of crowds with Christmas here and everybody trying to get in their last minute shopping. We have managed to check out Westfield in Stratford (City) as we went there for my birthday dinner this past Friday. We met up with Livs as well and had an amazing time.

Myself, Sisi & Livs after my birthday dinner.

We all plan on meeting up in the week and exploring more of London with Sisi before she has to head back home to Canada. I will aim to remember to take photos so I'll actually have something to show you along with the posts. 

I must dash now to finish seasoning the meat for dinner tomorrow. 

Merry Christmas! xx

T-Minus 7 Days

Sisi will be here in seven days!

Eeeekkk! I am so overly excited, it's ridiculous!

-Lissa x

Shmore's Anyone??

This is a quick little post to let you all in on our Shmore's Night.

A little background:

I had been talking about s'mores from back home and how good they are to the kids. I even showed them photos of what they look like. We agreed that we'd make some one night in the backyard. This all seems well and dandy, except that we soon realized that normal British stores don't carry graham crackers OR plain hershey's chocolate. The marshmallows also have to be halal so they melt a bit funny. What did we do to counteract everything? Bought digestives and Lindt chocolate and went to town! Thus ensued the birth of the Shmore - the British version of a S'more. Here is a mini-photo recap of myself with a Shmore...

Roasting my mrshmallow

Ahhhhh! LOL

Ta-da! A Shmore is born!

Yummy even though the chocolate didn't melt.

The smoke from the fire clouded the photo but I'm quite happy with my Shmore. :-)

I will aim to do a full post soon to update on what's been going on with me the past month or so. 

Adios amigos! xx