We Moved! Then went to Sweden! Then the states!

We moved one whole building over. So same complex, but different apartment layout. It's awesome! If you need the address, just email us.  Big/good differences: our deck is now three times larger (awesome), our kitchen is open to the main living room (also awesome), and instead of a diagonal hallway and weirdly shaped rooms, everything is now nice and square and the use of the space is fantastic (awesome-est). Our view of the Thames is also a bit cooler because we can see all of Canary Wharf and we can see the curve in the river.

Foggy Morning

Not so foggy

  

We also traveled to Sweden with the Wild's at the beginning of December to check out some Christmas markets! It was very fun but VERY cold. One might say bitterly cold.

The main Christmas market we ventured to was a bit hard to find and was smack in the middle of one of those old towns where they recreate scenes from the past like, "check out what Christmas would have been like for this family in the 1920's!". Not an exciting kind of town, but the market was cute.

    

Vasa Museum!

Best cookies! NOM

Smallest Gluhwein

Then in mid-December we went to the states to see everyone for the pre-holidays. Chicago first, where it felt just as bitterly cold as Sweden, but it was a great trip. We had all the mac and cheese (all of it) with my volleyball team, Rocko surprised us again (awesome), AND we finally got to go to Helen and Paul's Champagne party extravaganza - here's my favorite pic of that.

Then we finally warmed up in Arizona and got to hang with family before heading back to ol'London town.

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 2016 was a stone cold beast and I'm looking forward to what will hopefully be a much nicer 2017. WAHOO!