York Christmas Market, Wall Walk, Formal Tea and Railroad Museum

The next day we walked along the wall over to the York Minster. York is a walled town so this wall that you can walk on goes around the center of the city. It's a neat way to see things and different view of the Minster, University and other buildings.

Getting up there (and carrying the stroller up all of these steep steps) was something else.

Lovely York Minster:

After walking into York Minster and just looking from the back, we decided not to shell out £9 each to tour the grounds. The overview and walking around outside was good enough. 

Main shopping street by the Minster. Do you see the sign across the street for the oldest pub (arguably) in England?

Chris' kind of Christmas tree: a beer tree:

She was really studying this guy. They are about the same size-too cute:

Minion mania. Ethan wanted this, of course:

The line for Betty's Tea House was out the door and around the block so we made our way back near the Minster to this cafe called The Red House Cafe (we remarked how cute it was earlier). It was it crowded and was just perfect for lunch and our little tea experience.

Ethan wanted his picture next to the red house teapot:

Check out those cute little sandwiches and cake pieces. Perfect for sampling and for kids!

The Minster up close with a sun break!

From here, we split up for a few hours so Chris could do some Christmas shopping for his secret Santa and I and so he could take Ethan to the National Railway Museum. I don't know much about what they saw (and will just post these pics) since I wasn't along but both of them raved about this amazing free museum:

And Katrina and I did some shopping at the markets and some of the regular stores. 

I think they should have added "The Grand Old" to the beginning of the name of this pub:

Look how close those building overhangs are in the background!

Hailey took a long nap and was sleeping peacefully most of the time, I had a warm amaretto mulled wine in hand, there was live Christmas music in the background and we perused the markets unhurried. My kind of Black Friday shopping! :)