We went to a wonderful Christmas carol concert last night at the historic St. George's church in Hanover Square, close to where I worked in Mayfair when we first moved to London. It was a great mix of the choir singing carols and the audience joining in on some songs (like Hark the Harold Angels and O Come All Ye Faithful). I definitely teared up a few times - I'm a total sucker for Christmas carols. These concerts happen all over London during the holidays, we went to one in Royal Albert Hall a few years ago, and it's such a great way to get into the Christmas spirit. Ric and I were wondering whether this is something that happens in other cities? Or is it just a London thing?
Here's a pic from inside the church:
In other news, we had two Christmas trees delivered over the past two days, without ordering either one. We were surprised after the first one showed up on our doorstep and doubley surprised when the second one arrived. We had been looking at a site called christmastreeman.co.uk, which will send you a live tree (which you're supposed to keep alive) that they pick up after Christmas and replant. It's a pretty cool idea, but we never made it all the way through the order/payment process. That, however, didn't seem to phase the Christmas Tree Man, who decided to send us two tress - one on Sunday and one on Monday. Now we're waiting for them to come back and pick one up. And still aren't quite sure how this whole thing happened without us paying for either tree.
Christmas lights are up all over town, and for the first time, the lights on Oxford Street have a corporate sponsor... Disney's A Christmas Carol Movie paid for the display and London was hoping it would help draw additional tourist traffic over the holidays. Not sure if that worked or not, but here's a pic of Oxford's sponsored Christmas lights:
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