We only had two weekends left in the flat before we head home for
Christmas, so although it was only the end of November this weekend, I broke
all my usual rules, and we set the full weekend aside for Christmas activities.
Starting straight after
work on Friday afternoon we headed down to Orchard Road (Singapore’s equivalent
of Oxford Street) to gather as many sparkly and fir tree inspired decorations
as we could carry. It turns out that whilst Singapore does Christmas slightly
wrong (lights are pink rather than white, red or green) and exotic flowers are
often included in their winter evergreen arrangements, but they don’t half love
to try!
Orchard Road could not
have physically held another string of Christmas lights, another Christmas tree
or any more sparkly reindeer. It was boiling hot and pretty sweaty, but it was
super Christmassy, and it was a little bit glorious!
One we were all stocked
up with Christmas treats the rest of our weekend passed in a fairly glorious
blur of turkey dinners (Thanksgiving with some American buddies) and mince pies
(because they’re fabulous).
It’s still a bit too
early to start packing for the trip home, but my bags are out and my winter
clothes have all be flung over them – it’s getting very, very close to
Christmas time!
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