Lovely day of art.

Today I woke up at about 10am or earlier, but sat in bed until about 10.30am. When I went downstairs, everyone had already eaten except for Julia and I. I made myself something to eat and then waited until the shower was free. I showered and got dressed, ready to go out with Julia's oma. I didn't know what time she was coming, so I waited in the kitchen and knitted for a bit. She came over a little after 12pm and then we drove to Stadtallendorf together. She took me to an old World War 2 monoxide factory, there was basically nothing left of it, just the kitchen and wash room, sort of, but there was a sign and then a map of where everything used to be.

We drove further and through some really nice villages. We ended up in Willingshausen, but it took us a lot less time than we thought and the place we were going to opened at 2pm. We spent a little less than an hour walking around the village, looking at the houses, the church and the castle that is now a house.

The village has the offical second name of, The painting village. We made our way to the house we were going to. It used to be an old Painter's colony. We went inside and waited for the lady to come. She was a little bit late, but didn't realise we were already there. She let us inside and talked to us about all of the art that was there. There were only two small rooms, but the art was great and all the artists that had painterings there, had also lived there. She talked to us for ages and then showed us the second room, where there were lots and lots of paintings on the walls. There was also a painted door that used to be in a musuem, but was now in the house again. The old lady that was showing us around, her Grandfather was painted on the door too. She showed us soem more paintings and then asked if I wanted to look at some small paintings by Marianne Heinemann, who is an amazing artist. All of the painting were of people in the traditional clothing, but it went through all of the different styles and colours to wear the different festivals. Now I can tell you which colours mean what. It was really interesting and she was so nice letting us see all the art in the house. At the end we look through a lot of prints of paintings and I ended up getting one by Adolf Lins, it has two little girls feeding ducks outside their house.

The old lady walked us down to the other art gallery. Julia's oma and I walked around and looked at all the painting. Some were amazing watercolours, but then there was a mixture of abstract and realism... We thought it was both really strangte because all the paintings were by the same man. You don't usually see an artist who does both things. We walked through, the realist paintings were really good, but that was about it. We paid and walked out and back to the car. We drove back to Bürgeln, but made one stop along the way and went to a tower in Neustadt, I think... The tower is decorate differently on each half, one is the style you see and the other is with little blue bits of wood.

We got home and a family friend, Ralf was over. We all sat at the table and Julia's oma and I got to eat a piece of cake. We spent a while talking and after a bit their aunty came over and sat with us. Ralf left and drove his tractor back to one of the villages close by... I thought it was hilarious. Julia's oma left after a bit too. Their aunty stayed for a while and talked.

I helped with dinner and we made a chicken stirfry with rice. I cut the vegetables and then we let it cook for a while. We ate together, well Hannah wasn't home. Ralf and his wife came bacxk over to pick up something and then after a while Julia and I went to a friend's house and watched TV for a while. We had some little pizzas and salad to eat and watched whatever we saw on TV.

At about 12am, we walked home and everyone was asleep. We went to bed basically straight away.