come on, it's lovely weather

Today was a much better day than yesterday, despite the fact that I accidentally slept until 3:00 PM and completely missed what little daylight there was to be seen. Sam and I, in an attempt to rid me of my stressed out/homesick/rainy weather funk, decided to walk over and see the big tree at Trafalgar Square. When we got there, there was an advent carol service going on, right there in the middle of the city, which was great. Afterwards we went inside St.-Martin-in-the-fields, which is a big old church next to Trafalgar Square. I don't know why it's called that. It was very pretty inside--I am starting to get used to these really gaudy renaissance and gothic type churches, but this one was very toned down and protestantized but still beautiful. And it has a crypt underneath with a cafe and a little shop in it. Then we watched people ice skating at sommerset house for a few minutes, and then we went and had some mulled wine at a pub called the George over by the royal courts of justice, which I don't think is related to the other George we went to, but maybe. Later, we made paper snowflakes to decorate our kitchen window. Needless to say not much work has been done today, but you're only in London at Christmas once, right? There are pictures of all this, by the way, if you click that link over there on the left. For some reason they came out really grey and grainy, but that might just be because that's what it really looked like, I'm not sure.