So this past weekend was a long weekend. Friday was German Reunification Day (Tag der Deutschen Einheit) so everyone was off! Alexandra Robers (the daughter of one of my mom's cousins) was near Hannover and picked me up to take me to see the relatives. It was wonderful.
We drove home Thursday night and went almost right to bed. Then Friday morning Alexandra, Christa (her mom), Stefanie and Melanie (more daughters of cousins...they are all my age-ish), and I went shopping in Holland for the day. It was packed...with Germans haha. It wasn't a holiday for the Hollandish. Then almost as soon as we got home Alexandra and I went to Oeding (15 Kilometers from Vreden) and cooked dinner with Stefanie and Melanie at their house. We made a delicious spaghetti - homemade sauce and everything! - and then played a dice game , visited a bit with their parents (my mom's cousins) and laughed much of the night away.
Saturday Alexandra and I spent visiting her Oma, my great aunt, Tante Katharina. It was nice to see her. We went around the city and enjoyed a day with no rain an sunny weather. Then Alexandra and I went to the grocery, baked a cake (oooo it was so delicious), and got ready for the evening. Saturday night Alexandra had a few of her girlfriends over and we drank some homemade strawbery liquor from Stefanie and played Cranium and Activity (a game similar to cranium except only with drawing, pantomiming, and explaining). The games were (obviously) played in German, but I will never lose my competitive spirit and would like you all to know that my team won Cranium...(and, yes, I did help haha).
Sunday was a lazy day. We visited the last of Tante Katharina's three children, Georg and his family who also live in Vreden. Then we enjoyed a very nice dinner that Christa made. I headed home by train Sunday night. Alexandra is heading to Hamburg Monday night (tonight) for work tomorrow.
It was just a wonderful weekend of relaxation, family time, and lots of laughing, chocolate, and some high quality - aka Hollandish - black licorice...what can I say I am related to my Oma.
2 comments:
That just made me think again of the night when we played taboo. Ok, well Andrea and I didn't win, but that game is only played with words, so I've got an excuse, right?... ;)
amy, you are blending in so well with the german rellies. i bet they all love you (how could they not?!) because you make such an effort. i'm proud of you.
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