This week we've been trying to get ourselves into the Christmas spirit. Because it's so hot here it doesn't feel very festive, well, not to us anyway!
As Claire mentioned before, we started off by going out on Saturday night to look at the Christmas lights people have put up outside their houses. See the video at the bottom of this blog to see what we mean!
Then Claire and I decided to go down to the local park on Sunday night for the Carols by Candlelight.
Essentially, it's a little show put on by a local performing arts group. One of the local news readers narrates the story of Christmas and then throughout the show there's music by different groups and Carols which everyone sings along to. It was really good.
The park is situated on top of a hill and through the trees you can see the Perth city skyline, all the skyscrapers lit up at night. It had been a stonking hot day, about 40'C, so the evening was really warm. Felt strange sitting out at 9:30 at night in just shorts and T-Shirt singing Christmas Carols by candle light. Most people have a candle to hold throughout the night so it looks really cool when there's a few hundred candles flickering away. They even included some animals in the show, a horse, a donkey and a few camels, as well as some bagpipers who played Waltzing Matilda towards the end.
And finally, if we weren't feeling Christmassy enough, we put up some decorations on Monday night. We didn't have a tree so we all took Digger for a walk and managed to find a few branches to use as our tree. It's not a conventional tree but it looks pretty in the corner of our living room! (and it was free!)
After all that you'd think we'd be feeling pretty festive, but we're still not really. I think it just feels wrong because it's summer!?
So, that was last week. We're both doing fine, still going to work during the week. Enjoying ourselves here in Perth.
Thanks for reading, we'll blog again soon.
x x x
A little video of some of the Christmas lights in action!
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