It's been absolute ages since I posted - we've been so busy in the past couple of weeks that until yesterday I hardly checked my e-mail!
Christmas was alright, not much to tell - we went over to my Aunt's house, ate, talked, and missed the ones no longer with us. From this year things will be different, since Cisco's family comes into the picture. We'll just play it by ear!
New Year's Eve was a whole lot of fun, though - Adam and Nia finally joined us in Portugal for some holidays away from foggy London, and we took the opportunity of playing a murder mystery game which was hilarious. As Cisco was playing a Gestapo officer, the last crafting I've done in a while has been an arm band with a swastika. It looks freakishly realistic. So, erm, yeah. (Cisco had a lot of fun making comments about how I, his bride-to-be, dressed as a Russian Countess, was lovingly sewing his Nazi paraphernalia. Men..)
The rest of that week was obviously spent touring Estoril, Cascais, Sintra, Evora and Lisbon, with not a moment to spare, that made us fall in love with the city all over again. (not that we had ever been out of love, but..you know what I mean). I think they liked it, but we have some good-natured ribbing always going on with Lisbon-Manchester rivalry, so they could never be too gushy without loosing face. We still love you, guys!
The wedding preparations are slowly advancing, while our wedding planner (we were forced into this by the paternal entities, but it is useful) negotiates a fantastic place for us. Nothing else is ready, bit I'm a little bit less stressed. Just..a tiny little bit, mind you.
We're going back to Manchester on Sunday, since I wanted to spend my Birthday here, and our Anniversary is the day after and we didn't want to travel then either. I miss my cat, and my stuff, but, as always, this is going to be a little bit hard.
Hi Vanda, welcome back to the world of blogging. Sounds like you have been having a great time.
Posted by: carolyn | January 10, 2007 at 06:17 PM