So, Christmas in Kochi

 

Yeah it seems Blogger wants to let me use photos today, awfy nice of it. And since I'm in the mood, I should do this, why not?! So at the start of December there was a winter lights lantern type festival on at Kochi Castle. So me and my friend went along to check it out. Turned out to be pretty smart indeed. There was like SO MANY candles and lanterns it was crazy, and very pretty.

 

 

 

In the park beside the castle they had this made out of candles. Thought that was pretty smart.

 

 

It was obvious folk had put A LOT of work into the whole set-up.

 

 

And this festival was on two weekends in a row. I feel very sorry for whatever poor souls had to keep lighting all those wee candles...

 

 

We got to hold lanterns too, like the festival in October. And a manny was determined to take our photos beside the castle. Looks pretty good though, so alright then.

 

 

I bought a lot of Christmas decorations. My predecessor had left some, but I wanted my own. Christmas decorations are sort of a personal thing in my opinion anyway. I used the tree though haha and I think I did a pretty good job indeed.

 

 

I also decided to make mulled wine. I was considering making gingerbread men or something, but cooking biscuits or cakes inside a microwave that has an "oven" in it too, I decided against. Mulled wine was easier to go about, plus my supervisor had never tried it before.

 

 

I made many litres of the mulled wine, maybe like 3 litres. Gave my supervisor a good chunk of it, then sort of mostly drank the rest myself. I made more for another Christmas party later... and pretty much drank all that too..

 

So yeah, that was pretty much my preparations for Christmas. Besides finding presents for folk that weren't too big or heavy, and of course buying Christmas presents for myself. I declared my early Christmas day to be December the 23rd, as in the day I would leave for heading to Korea. I opened my presents with my family on Skype (awwww I hear you say haha). I ate a ridiculous amount of food, like cheese and crackers for lunch, lots of chocolate and a steak for tea.

 

Was all pretty good, and a good start to the Christmas holidays overall.