Birthday!

This morning, I got up at a decent time of 9.30am. Everyone else was awake, but sitting in bed, so I got my knitting and went up to my room again. I ended up sleeping a bit more until 10.30am, when I woke up. We started cleaning the house a bit and not really doing too much.

Julia wasn't waking up, even though it was her birthday, so we started eating breakfast without her. Eventually she came down, ate with us and slowly opened her presents. She got mostly money, but a little chocolate keyboard, a book and slippers. I gave her a pink diamond charm for her necklace and then Hannah gave her bright pink tracksuit pants, which she decided to wear the whole day.

Our very strange neighbour, Heinz came over to say hello and drank coffee. He stayed for a while and annoying the family while they tried to get ready to have all of the relatives over.

Eventually, after 3pm, everyone started to arrive and the table filled up with cakes. When most of the people were there, we started eating cake and drinking coffee.

Everyone stayed for ages... During the whole get together, Julia's dad had to drive out and help someone, there tractor had broken down in the village and was blocking one of the major insections. He towed the tractor back to the house and then a few people ran out to push the tractor as well. The pink pants in the photo is Julia...

After, some more aunties came over and then more relatives. Some of Julia's friends came over and they went upstairs. Everyone left and Julia's mum and I started getting the deep frier ready because Julia wanted calamari and chips for her birthday. I went upstairs too while Julia's mum finished cooking. We listened to music, ate cake and drank. The food was ready and we went downstairs to eat. We all decided that it was like a kid's party becuase we were all sitting around the table together, eating.

We all went back upstairs and the rest of Julia's family went to a friend's house. We sat around, talking. Some more people came over and we sat around for a few hours. One of the boys decided to start speaking English to me, and I replied in German. It was quite interesting, I always like conversations like that. We both get to practice the languages we are learning.

When it was about 12am, we all left the house and started walking people home. We dropped off nearly everyone and then we home with two of the other girls, they left soon after.
We all got to bed at about 1am.