Christmas Eve

I normally enjoy working Christmas Eve - it feels like a waste of holiday to use a days annual leave since the tradition for the last four years has been to turn up, order bacon sandwiches, do a few christmas quizzes and then go to the pub at lunchtime!

Unfortunately Christmas isn't a big celebration in Hong Kong so my day was a little less fun that I had hoped!! The company Stephen works for are kind and let them all leave at 2pm, the company I work for just treated it as a normal day, boo!

Still, I had a Pip the Polar bear tin full of sweets to keep me going!! 

And we had a trip to the Dim Sum restaurant in our building (which I didn't even know existed, and is really good!) for lunch which was nice and sociable and good to hear everyone's plans for Christmas.

I finally escaped the office at 5:15 and positively skipped down to the MTR station to get home and meet Stephen. We went to a rooftop bar at a posh hotel down the road from us - it has happy hour 5-7pm each weekday but we're generally working then! It was fab

Happy hour cocktail numero uno

Numero duo! It was pretty cool watching it get dark and being sat outside on the 32nd floor - we did have an outdoor heater and it started to get a little bit chilly...

We then went to our new favourite restaurant - Thai Pepper. It's just down the road in a similar 'mansion' block and it's really tasty, good quality and cheap Thai food.

Quick stop at the supermarket on the way home... Cider and Ice Cream - essentials! As you can see there's no crazy queues at the tills in Hong Kong on Christmas Eve and they're even giving you 10% off for no particular reason!

Then it was home to wrap up each others pressies (nothing like leaving it till last minute... I managed to grab the last sheet of decent wrapping paper in the newsagents at lunchtime but the majority of Stephen's pressies were wrapped in slightly dodgy prints!!) and go to bed hoping Santa knew our new address!!