Pre Christmas celebrations

With one week to go before Christmas (and one day before we leave for our month long stay in Cape Town), we have been busy with some pre-christmas stuff: the dinners here at The Avenue have been quite festive, we went to Central London for some shopping and last night we had dinner at a real English "Private Members Club"! The first two are adequately described by way of the pictures below:

Dinner at The Avenue. See the Christmas lights in the background. Also be aware that it gets dark at 4pm now! 

Typical London Tourist picture: The horse guards in Whitehall.

The windows of especially the more upmarket shops are beautrifully decorated!

Lyn's cousin David invited us (including Sean) for diner at his club last night. Dave's daughter Kelly was also there. The club is the RAC (Royal Automobile Club), in Pall Mall. It is quite an amazing place, with several bars, three restaurants and a multitude of function rooms plus a TV lounge, an indoor swimming pool, a gym and a very nice library. There are even over 100 rooms where members can spend the night. The dinner was very nice too! Quite an experience in the centre of London.

Sean and Kelly at the Christmas tree in the central hall of the RAC

The RAC library