Our Adventures continue with heroine Rachel and her family in Europe. The setting: New Years Eve...
The family arrived in the afternoon and we all had coffee and biscuits. Or cake. One or the other. The kids were VERY excited to finally meet them and as you can imagine they showed it! Daniel was dragged off to Magnus' room to play and Henny took Sarah on a grand tour of the house - she saw the play room, Henny's princess box, the girls' bedroom, Hennys bed, Hennys old bed, Johannas bed, Johannas old bed, and the twins beds. So everything important. Meanwhile the babies played cute and Johanna got all shy and pretended like she hadn't spent the last 3 days asking every half hour when Sarah would arrive.
Sometime later Max came over for New Years Eve dinner. We all ate together (all 8 adults, 3 kids - the twins went to bed!) at the giant table in the dining room. It was a SUPER delicious meal - a meat fondue with 3 different types of meat marinated and then there was sauces and stuff to go with it. YUMMY!!!
At some stage Henny and Johanna dropped off and were taken upstairs to sleep, but Magnus managed to stay awake and a bit before 12 we got all rugged up and headed out the front. There we met Hanns' parents and his aunt who came over from their house up the road to join us for the fireworks. In Germany, as well as the official New Years fireworks like we have in Sydney, for New Years, everyone is allowed to let off their own fireworks. And from the field road we can see the fireworks in Hannover, and in all the villages surrounding us so when 12 hit the whole sky was full of beautiful fireworks - and the boys all had fun letting off ours too!!!
On Sunday Max met us again at the house and Mum, Dad, Daniel, Sarah and Johanna joined Max and I at church. There weren't lots of people there because it was New Years Day but it was a lovely morning, I thought. Then we went to Burger King for lunch and let me tell you, you aint never seen anyone eat chips until you've seen Johanna eat chips. That girl is a machine. Then we went to take a look around the Town Hall which has cool scale models of Hannover pre- during- and post- war. Johanna fell asleep on the way so we all took turns carrying her and then I sat on the steps in there like a hobo and waited till the others were finished. Oh well, I've been there before, anyways. Mum has photos of Hobo Rachel and Loudly Snoring Johanna, I'm sure.
On Monday the family went with Hanns on a little tour of the farm and I stayed inside where it wasn't raining! In the afternoon we headed into Hannover and just sort of had a walk around the main pedestrian area - Sarah did a bit of shopping and we headed into a cafe for some fabulous hot chocolate on a tip from Hanns (I will DEFINITELY be going back there). We headed home and Mum and Dad made pizza for dinner and camped out in front of the TV for the night while Daniel, Sarah, Max and I headed to a cocktail bar to meet Sarka - my very first friend in Germany! It was lovely.
Tuesday we drove up to Bremen and met up with Dads cousin who lives there. It was so cool to be able to finally meet so many of Dad's family members, especially one who lives SO CLOSE to me!! We went into town and met up with his wife and they showed us a little around Bremen before we went home and I rushed upstairs to get ready for... The Christmas Present From Max!! (Yes, I went on a date while my parents were here - don't judge it was a one night only event in Hannover!). The Christmas Present was tickets to a German Production of Phantom of the Opera - yes, I think it's safe to say he's a keeper! It was a fabulous night!
Wednesday my family drove to Berlin and I stayed home. But it's ok because then they came back and took me to Belgium and France with them!
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