Knitting socks...

I woke up at 10am this morning, showered and when I came downstairs, Julia's dad was drinking his coffee. I ate cereal and then tried to tidy up my room a bit. Julia's borther was awake, but no one else woke up for a while. I hung around the house and then sat on the couch for a while. Julia had training at 1pm, and woke up just before she had to leave. I borrowed some gift wrapping supplies from Hannah's room and started wrapping all my gifts for Christmas. They are not very well wrapped, but I think I did a good job.

Julia's mum came home from work and we quickly ate leftover chicken curry and rice from the day before. We had to leave quickly and pick Julia up from training, then drive into Marburg so Julia could go to the doctor.

While Julia was at the doctors, we walked around the city a bit and bought last minute Christmas present and some socks, because everyone had ran out of them. I bought some Christmas present for Julia's aunties and then I was done with all my gifts! We walked back to Julia's Oma's house and on the way we saw a fire truck with men hammering down the iciles that were hanging from the buildings.

We went inside, sat and drank lemonade and ate chocolate. We waited for Julia to come home and then we left after a while.

We drove slowly through the city, the traffic was horrible and it took forever to get out. We drove through Cölbe and the traffic was better, but the roads and so narrow because of the snow. We drove to a little florist that sold Christmas trees and tried to pick one out. Julia's mum and I decided on one, but everyone else thought it was ugly. The trees are so different to in Australia, I'm used to seeing huge, full trees... We shoved it in the car and drove to our next destination.

We were planning on going to by wool, but the place Julia's mum likes to buy it from is dangerous to get to because the roads are so slippery. We are going tomorrow instead. We got to go to this place called SB Union. It is like Costco in Melbourne, the restaurants buy all there supplies here and you need a special number, just like in Melbourne. We walked around and all we were reall excited about were the lollies. We found giant straws, massive amounts of seafood and peanuts! They also sell huge amounts of everything else, lollies, gerkins and then of course, firework which are legal in Germany between the 29th-31st of December.

We came home and unloaded the car, I got to carry the lovable Christmas tree to the house and placed it in the snow outside so it stood up. I think it is going to stay there until we decorate it on the 24th.

We came home and we were all starving, so we made pizza and left it in the oven. In the meantime, Julia's mum and I drank coffee together because she says that I never want to drink coffee with her and we ate little Lindt chocolates, but no one can know. We hid them from everyone else. Our pizza was ready and we ate it all, then Julia's mum and I went to one of the neighbours house to learn how to knit socks... Before we left, a giant truck decided to drive into the village and then turn around in the tiny streets here... That was interesting.

We went over to our neighbours house and tried to learn how to knit socks... We learnt that Australian's knit differently to Germany, but I think I just might knit strangely. For socks you end up having 5 needles to make the circle. It is so difficult trying to knit with them all in the way. We also found out that I pearl backwards... It was very strange and complicated, it gets easier to knit, but then worse when you get to the heel... I don't think I will get that far, or I will just end up making one sock.

We walked home at about 9.45pm and Julia's borther was still awake watching Bonanza. I sat down and watched with him, then he went to sleep and we all watched TV.

I got a little German writing book in my advent calendar today, just after I bought new notebooks as travel diaries because I'm about to finish mine.