Happy Easter!

I hope everyone had an enjoyable Easter, and you all had a good weekend!  We had a fun celebration at home; starting off with eggs for breakfast ...  :)

 

 

After breakfast we coloured some eggs and had an egg cracking competition!

Lunch was delicious!  Baked chicken with honey glazed carrots, rice and meat with pine nuts, and a spinach salad...

For dessert, I baked my mum's recipe for almond cake ... yummy!!

 And don't forget the Easter Chocolate!

I'm dreaming of a warm Christmas...

I'm back(!!) and hopefully getting back into regular posting again... as I've mentioned before, I travelled to Dubai for Christmas and I miss it so much already!  I have so many pictures and stories to share, so I'll start off with our Christmas celebrations:  

Christmas Eve:

Hot Chocolate on the balcony :)

Christmas Day:

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, and enjoyed their New Year's celebrations!!  I hope 2012 will be a good year for everybody!  As you may have noticed, I have not had the chance to update the blog since I've been away on holiday... but once I'm back, I'll start posting regularly again in around a week. :)  Meanwhile, I'll leave you with a few select pictures from our trip and I'll be sharing lots more soon!

Toronto Christmas Market

Today, we spent the afternoon at Lowe's Christmas Market at the Distillery District in Toronto!  It's basically a street market with stalls selling traditional european products (local and handcrafted) as well as specialty beer, bakery treats, and a variety of food (including traditional oktoberfest sausages, hot chocolate, pretzels, baked goods, french canadian poutine, etc).  There was also a big Christmas tree set up next to a stage with carollers singing every hour.

At first, we strolled through the market and looked around (it wasn't as big as I hoped it would be, so in that respect, I was a little disappointed), then listened to a few songs the carollers were singing.  We were verry hungry as it was lunch time, and couldn't find a proper restaurant (which served something other than paninis, pasta or grills which seemed to be all there was there), so we ended up getting some Poutine from one of the stalls; it was sooo good!  After that, we visited one of the stalls selling european baked goods, where we sampled some fruit cake :)  At the end of our visit, we stopped by the Balzac café and drank some yummy hot chocolate!

As promised, here are the photos of the traditional european style market and decorations around the distillery district.  Also, you can check out a few videos of the christmas market here, which I will be uploading on my youtube page.

The Christmas Market is open from Dec 2nd - Dec 18... for more info about the market and the Toronto Distillery District: http://www.torontochristmasmarket.com/  and http://www.thedistillerydistrict.com/

More pics to come of Balzac's Café and the Christmas Cake we bought :)

Mobile uploads - Christmas in Eaton Centre

Took a few pics of the christmas decoration at Eaton Centre ... there was a lot but only managed to take a few photos since I didn't have any space on my phone!

My favourite! Swarovski crystal tree :)

I'll be home for Christmas....

I love Christmas!! It's my favourite time of the year, and so the Christmas decorations are already up!  Although we don't have a tree because we'll be flying home to be with our family in December, we still have a few festive decorations and lights up.. hope you like them :)