Merry 2009!!!

Happy New Year to Everyone!!!

Christmas and New Years have gone off well for us and we have had a nice time over the festive period.

Unfortunately no snow on Christmas, it was actually a lovely day. We got up fairly early on Christmas morning and opened all our pressies which have been arriving from the postman over the last few weeks!! Both of my parents sent us warm clothes which are coming in very handy!!! Becky managed to get mum onto skype and the webcam so we talked to them and to Meredith as well. The webcam is great to actually see people especially at Christmas!!! We then worked Christmas lunch which was actually quite fun and then took loads of leftovers home for a big dinner at the house.

Work has been pretty quiet and the hotel was mostly closed between Christmas and new years but we had a massive function on New Years Eve. There were 97 people and it was pretty mad. J and I were lucky enough to get to go home just after midnight night after a quick glass of pink bubbly with our workmates and then we watched the fireworks at the castle from the end of our drive.

My Cousin Pam and Andrew came to visit us on new years eve, which was fantastic to see them and we showed them around the hotel and Warwick town.

Work had its Christmas party on th esunday after Christmas. yes a sunday we always go out on sundays cos thats when the hotel is quietest. We had it at a bar in Stratford with santa hats, a christmas meal and lots of drinks and dancing. As with any work the secret santa was excellent, J got computer games and i got a pink scarf which is great!!! not so secret but still fun!!!

Jeremy has been a bit sick the last week or so, poorly as they say here so we haven’t been up to much and J has been tucked up in bed avoiding the very cold weather we’ve been having. The pond in the park is frozen over very thickly which is quite exciting. I was going to say cool but …

We are heading off to Italy on Wednesday which is very exciting and we are looking forward to it a lot. Hopefully if will be a tad warmer than here and can’t wait to see everything and get back into travelling again!!!

So until we return with loads of Italian stories
Love gem