Wednesday, 16 December 2009

Christmas Shopping in London

On Saturday Nick and I went into London to buy a few Christmas presents before flying to the good old US of A.  Despite the fact that there were a million people on Oxford street and we could barely move, we ended up having lots of fun.

We walked down the other side of the street then I normally do, and wow what a difference switching sides can make.  Here are some of the amazing Christmas lights I missed last time...





We also stumbled across this funny little christmas market.  They had booths selling all sorts of little things.  I'm not really sure what the theme was because everything seemed so random... there were wooden ties, and jewelry, head bands, and wind mobiles.



My favorite was the hat booth.  I have this secret wish that someday I will have a very extensive hat collection and when people come to my house for fancy dinner parties they'll sit around the table wearing various hats.  This one was our favorite...




















Of course a market is useless without food, and there was plenty of it.  Williams-Sonoma makes an ebelskiver pan, which is probably my favorite totally unnecessary but super cool kitchen item.  Basically it's a pan with small wells that you pour batter and filling into, making super delicious stuffed pancakes.  Needless to say I was super excited when we came across the most massive ebelskiver pan I'd ever seen.



Obviously I had to see if they were as good as homemade, so I ordered a batch.  I guess because they were doing them for so many people they didn't bother to fill them since this would take longer, but they topped mine with cherries.  Unfortunately, it was a cold day and the cherries were cold, so that took away from the delicious warm goodness that they had the potential to be.

Then Nick decided he needed a massive hot dog.



I think he liked it!  What a fun little Christmas market!

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