Christmas day!

It was a lazy day to start with. I woke up around 10am and came downstairs. Our neighbour, Heinz who is a little bit crazy with here for coffee and to exchange presents. He stayed for a while and talked to us. After an hour or so, Julia's Oma came over for lunch. Heinz left and then we exchanged gifts. I gave a handmade glass Christmas decoration and she gave me a print of a painting I said I liked when I was at her house. She also gave me a lovely bracelet.

We all got dressed... And then set the table for our Chrustmas lunch. When everything was ready, Julia's dad cut the ducks up using garden clippers... I thought it was hilarous, so I took a photo. We set the table and put everything out. We ate soup first... I'm really not sure what it was, perhaps chicken? I know it had little alphabet noodles in it though. Then we ate salad with salmon, prawns and cocktail sauce. Then came the duck! We ate it with red sauer kraut, the apple and chestnut stuffing from the duck and these German noodles things...

We sat around and talked for a while, basically to avoid going out into the cold walking. After a while, we all got up and went outside. We walked through the village and then down a track near the railway line. Miak found a log which later broke in half. It was nice because the sun was shining down.

We came home and sat around the table for ages. We talked, drank coffee and ate biscuits. We talked about the trip to Berlin that Julia and I are going on. The coffee machine also broke down, so Julia's parents got out the old one and got it working. Julia's Oma was still here, but a family friend came over to exchnage presents. She sat and drinking coffee for a little while. Everyone left after a bit and we went into the lounge to sit and relax. I got into my pyjamas and then Julia told me at 9pm we were going sledding. The family was wathcing Ice Age 3 together when we left. We walking down the street and met some of the other girls. It was -10 degrees when we left the house. We walked near all the paddocks at the back of the village and near the track line, then found a perfect hill. After going up and down it a few times, smashing into bushes and so on, we walking up further to near a play ground. We went down with giant mountian of snow that was in the middle of it and then walked to another place. It was sort of like a really hilly street at the end of the village. It has a lot of corners in it. We went down it a few times and then had to walk the whole way up again. At about 11pm, we all headed home. Julia and I sledded down the streets home and then finally gave up because it was too slow.

We came home and took off all of our snow clothes, which were really quite attractive. I got to use my hot water bottle for the first time and took it to bed with me. :)