The girls were up relatively early but we had to wake little Henry up at 7:30 to get the party started. Everyone was thrilled with their gifts from Santa and family members. We hung around the apartment playing with everything and then went down for a Christmas lunch party thrown by one of Craig's co-workers. We got lucky today with the weather because the sun never really came out from behind the clouds so it felt pretty cool at the party when we had all anticipated being super hot.
After the party we came back up to play with some more toys and then had our Christmas "dinner" (really just a meat & cheese platter since we had a large meal downstairs) and we had our Christmas Crackers. This was the first year that Henry wore his crown throughout the meal. We quickly cleaned up and hit the MRT and got off at Orchard to check out the Christmas scene there (and to see more of the street lights lit up on foot).
Orchard Road was packed with entertainers, music, parade floats, and tons of people. We walked from Orchard MRT to Somerset and got some good people-watching in along the way. As we walked down Orchard, we started to hear what sounded like angry shouting into a microphone and I was fully expecting to see a riot start. As we got closer, we saw a group stretching and Anna said, "oh, that guy is counting" because she understood the Chinese numbers he was saying! She asked me, "is it weird that that I can understand what that guy is saying?" And I said, "no, it's super cool!" I was a little jealous in that moment but I could see that she appreciated that she is learning something useful in her Chinese class at school.
It was another late night for the kids so we decided to head back home before it was too late. Overall, it was a really good Christmas Day.
