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Do you have Christmas plans? Did you buy your tickets?
I was just wondering if you have Christmas plans? I bought tickets to go home and I was surprised to see that almost all of my flights were already booked.
Crazy.
Re: Do you have Christmas plans? Did you buy your tickets?
We split Christmas, so one year we are here with dh's mom and the next back in the US with my family. This year we are headed back to the US and I am SO excited. I loathe spending Christmas here in the UK.
We bought our tickets at the end of September and all was good until about a week ago. The only flight we had to fly from Boston to Pittsburgh got cancelled so we are now travelling Christmas Day. I do NOT want to be staying over night in Boston with two kids and then have to get them on a plane again the next day after a whole previous day of travelling. Oh well.
Duke's House: Eating and Running with the Big Dog in Chennai: eatrunbrit.com
2010 Race PRs:
5K - 24:57 10M - 1:28:20 13.1M - 1:57:29 26.2M - 4:28:29
BFP Apr 2012, EDD Dec 19 2012 * twin h/b at 6wk, 9wk scan * Baby A lost at 12wks, Baby B was my rainbow born at 36wks
We're waiting to hear if BIL is going to have MIL over or not this year (she usually comes here). I'm kind of hoping she goes over there so we can be just the two of us for most of the holidays for once.
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Little Miss Lulu playing on the beach
Unless things have changed a lot since 2007, expect Christmas in Budapest to be really quiet. I guess if you have family there it works out, but otherwise most people just stick with family and you barely see anyone even out on the street. I remember thinking it was a bit eerie; even when compared to Zagreb.
This year Christmas is here in Spain. We will probably do Christmas here again next year too since we'll be going to the US in June...we'll see though.
Last year we did Christmas in the US and had our tickets bought by mid-summer. I wouldn't wait until this time of year to book tickets, but I'm a planner.
Cecilia arrived 12 October 2012
We are doing a little traveling around Germany at the beginning of the month, staying here for the actual days of Christmas and then to Scotland after Christmas.
I just realized that my H has half the month of December off, maybe I can convince him that we need a weekday or two in Amsterdam.
We're spending Xmas and New Years' with DH's family in Sydney. We try to alternate years and last year we were with my family. I also saw my mom in August, so this spaces things out fairly.
No one else in my family, besides my mom, has bothered to visit, yet alone call, so you know what- I am tired of it. I know it's the wrong attitude to have, but the Australian side has been much more communicative than my side in the US. They all seem to think Germany is too far, won't visit, too expensive to call etc. So they don't. It's not that hard to call or send an email. For the past few years, I've felt like the effort was very one-sided, so I stopped making the effort. There is very little communication now. It's probably a discussion for another topic, so sorry for the vent.
Will be here in the UK with just us and I like it. Everyone here has to see family for the week between Christmas and New Years, so while everyone runs around crazy busy, we just chill out and I love it. I will be so pregnant by then so I hope to at least have some energy to make Christmas special for DS.
I grew up on the other side of the country from my grandparents so Christmas mainly was my immediate family. I remember not really liking the Christmases when we had to share it with extended family. We have our own traditions and having to make concessions or include others who didn't really do it like us always bothered me as a kid. Now with our own family we have created our own. I really like it that way.
Oh that sounds fabulous. Lots of mulled wine and roaring fires and good conversation. We did that before babies in Snowdonia Wales, loved it.
We're currently in a state of limbo. So far as I know right now, we'll be staying in Doha, and just enjoying some quiet time together for the holidays (which I don't mind at all)!
However, DH is on the market, so if he has job interviews in the US, he might be flying there (on his current employers dime, thank goodness). We just have to wait and see. Not sure if I'll be able to go with him or not!
Dave & Jennifer 10.18.08
My Doha Adventures
So funny you should ask...I spent all day researching Tenerife! The day after Christmas and through New Years, we will be scuba diving!
Since we're heading home for my sister's wedding in just a few weeks, and we will pretty much see all of our family then - we figured why not have our first EVER xmas alone here in Belgium!
Actually we won't be all alone, I invited some friends who have family in town over for a big Christmas eve feast! It will be 8 people in total, so hopefully I can pull it off!
Then, Christmas day we get to relax and watch xmas movies, probably skype with all our fam in the states too. I'm so excited bc it will be much more relaxing than the past two christmases with all the traveling and squeezing all the family visits in! I just hope it will still feel like Christmas!
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We're staying here. I'm also someone who prefers to go home in the summer when I can relax a bit more and have some sun. We'll be heading back to the States next in the summer of 2012 unless something like a wedding or major funeral comes up.
I like spending Xmas in London - I get to decorate my house, relax and not worry about cleaning for family or having H feel like he has to be "on" the whole time we have together. I walk around town and look at Xmas windows, go to Borough Market and buy expensive, yummy foods, and I just have fun! Lots of alcohol and food...what more could I want?
We're going the 3 weeks up to Thanksgiving and I had a terrible time finding tickets. It's hard to decide when to click 'buy'. A friend of mine was looking for tickets to SF over christmas and on day 1 they were 500, he wasn't sure about available dates, looked again on day 3, they were 800 (he now knew his dates) figured he had to discuss whether they could afford that with his wife, then on day 4 they were 510.
My ticket prices changed within 15 minutes. Fortunately they actually went down for the better itinerary and up for the worse one, but really, 15 minutes and the prices were all completely different.
We're staying in NL for Christmas.
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What I'm looking forward to in 2012:
Eating our way through (northern) Italy on vacation
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