Walk for December - Christmas Tree Festival

This month, we enjoyed a Christmas themed walk. We went to the Christmas Tree Festival at Upminster Methodist Church. The theme for the decorated trees was 'Around the world.' With over forty decorated Christmas trees, we enjoyed looking at each tree themed around a country. The creativity and ideas were fantastic. Members of the community around Upminster had decorated the trees such as primary schools, choirs, beavers, brownies to name but a few. As we walked around, we had to vote for our favourite tree but it was so difficult because all of the trees were fantastic. The local community had such good ideas e.g. the Italian tree was decorated with pasta whereas the choir wrote the word 'sing' in different languages on musical notes. The church also had the lovely idea for the children to go on a tree hunt and find the Mary, Jesus and Joseph hidden in the trees.
Outside the church, there were two gorgeous donkeys and Cheryl dressed up as Mary and encouraged us to join in with singing a few Christmas songs.

Afterwards, we walked down the main street in Upminster to the tea shop, Susie Bon-Bea where we enjoyed a lovely cream tea. The tea shop had decorated the tables beautifully, the scones were delicious and we were looked after very well. We are now talking about going back for some cupcake decorating lessons in the new year.

Susie Bon-Bea Tea Shop, Upminster