And now on to Christmas photos! We have decided not to "do Santa" with our kids for a variety of reasons, but when they came out into the living room in the morning, we had a few gifts from us already set up. There was a pop-up tent with a bouncy horse (or maybe donkey-- hard to tell) and a couple of wrapped gifts.
The kids got some new play food for the kitchen, and Finley put the food basket on like a hat!
Now into the stockings!
Elise absolutely adores the baby Granny and Papa sent her.
The kids' big gift this year was a car for the roof.
On Christmas afternoon, we went over to our wonderful friends' house for an early Christmas dinner and singing carols. It was complete chaos with 4 children/babies who were completely overwhelmed and overstimulated from the excitement of Christmas, but it was very special to get to celebrate with our "HK family" and softened the blow of our first Christmas away from family in the States.
Making vegan marshmallow snowmen.
Christmas Day was entirely too crazy (there were tons of meltdowns thanks to aforementioned overstimulation), so I took a few photos of the kids in their Christmas best after church on Sunday. They may be the cutest things I've ever seen in my life.
A few days after Christmas, we ventured to Pacific Place mall and the beautiful HK Park. Here are a few of the Christmas decorations there.
These are at Pacific Place, a ritzy mall known for bringing in the most realistic-looking Santa in HK. He's rumored to be from Canada and hired each year just for this.
This is a real Christmas tree which is 3 stories tall (as you can see in the photo above). I just can't even imagine how much it costs to bring in a 3-story-tall live tree to HK, likely from the Pacific NW. Just to buy a (half-dead) 5-foot tree, it costs anywhere from $100-$125 USD.
Outside at HK Park
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Hong Kong! XO
