Lights, Camera, Action

Yes I know. It's me again. That weirdo in all those fandoms. So hello again and merry Christmas. I thought that since it being Christmas and all I should do something Christmasy. I couldn't think of anything Christmasy except music, which I know nothing about. So then I decided to tell y'all about the fantabulous decorations over here in the wide world of London.

I have always liked Christmas decorations. In Houston, some extravagant persons do lights in tune to their own radio station. Crazy, I know. Some really ingenious street always puts out this massive train set and serve hot chocolate. Or you can get lucky with going down a coordinated street with all the exact same lights. If you get really lucky you get a house decorated with only home-made things, as in whole-yard-covered-in-professional-looking-homemade-decorations. Others, like my family, string a few light bulbs out and put out some old worn out gingerbread men statues and possible some lit up reindeer. :)

I don't know about houses here in London, but the city itself is always decorated fantabulously. So in Covent Garden this year, a snow globe was set up, containing all of London's famous landmarks made out of 120,000 lego pieces. It was crazy. The Shard was almost up to my shoulder. That poor person who had to build that. His neck would be cramping majorly. :)

In Covent Garden, there was literally this gigantic tree that made me feel *this* tiny. All over the market roofs they had hung giant red baubles and disco balls ( Ah, ah, ah, ah stayin' alive, stayin' alive!!! Jim Moriarty!!! No!!!! Side note, just went for a Christmas movie night with my friends. We watched Yours, Mine, and Ours, Catch me if You Can, three Sherlocks, and not one Christmas movie. :D As you can imagine, we got no sleep.)

Also this year, I was blessed with the opportunity to go see the lighting of the tree sent from Norway (Or was it Sweden…?) to London in Trafalgar Square. And before you start to imagine someone setting the tree on fire to show their appreciation to England, they just turn on it's lights. :) Seeing the lights all at once come on was really cool, surprisingly. Plus afterwards we had dinner in the city. Yay! :)

I haven't been to Oxford Circus this year, but last year the decorations were…more than puzzling. First of all the lights showed reindeer smashing a jar of Marmite. (???) Then it showed Santa eating a sandwich then spitting it out with a look of disgust. I was so confused until I saw Marmite's logo: "You either love it or hate it." So I'm guessing Santa and the reindeer didn't love it. :)

So those are my Christmas decorations experience in London so far. :) And I just finished writing a Christmasy story about Vienna here and here on my blog about writing and books, so if you have some time on your hands and a cup of tea, check it out. Or if your just bored. :D

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Scarlett