Christmas Decorations

We made it through - Christmas Decorations 2008

I love christmas - but it takes way too much time to decorate.

Here are some pictures of our decorations.

Moose welcome you in the entry:

Since you only use real trees - the stay only about a week or two - you set it up short bevore christmas eve and kick it out right after.



We usuallly spray stars on the windows.



Merry Christmas everyone.

Christmas Cookie-Time

Christmas Time - time to bake cookies....

since I hadn't seen lots of my school friends, I invited them to make christmas-cookies. I love the smell of chocolate and cookies in the house. Ist't it wonderful? I think that christmas-time starts with the smell....

I made some cute invitations

and got tons of stuff to bake:
5 kg of flour
5 kg of sugar
20 pkg. of Vanillinsugar and 20 pkg. of Bakingpowder - and loooots of decorations.
6pkgs. of Butter and 20 eggs.


We used almost all of it.


4 of my friends found time to come. It was great to see them again.
We made some "Design"-Cookies, which turned out all right.


Here you can see Jenny on the right, she was in Indiana for a year, when I was in Idaho. We still love to philosophize about the time in USA. On the left its Steffi, a friend from high school.

This is another friend: Kristina.


And here are some of our cookies. Snowflakes.... Yummie.

Maybe you guys can smell the cookies, if you close your eyes and try to think about them :-)

Christmas Market in Hamburg

I bet you guys all love the temple lights - they are great, I know - but Hamburg has the best Christmas Markets in Germany.

There are abou 10 different markets in Hamburg, and one is more beautyful than the other.

This is the main market at the town hall:

We love to go there after a long college-day and get something warm to drink. There are about 80 different wooden stands where they sell historical stuff like toys and candles.
They also have great hot choclate and crêpes. I love them.
Usually we meet with friends and stay there an hour or more. Since lots of us work or study downtown, it easy to find time together and round the day.

One evening we took christophs grandma and went on a trip on the Alster (the river in the middle of Hamburg). It was a lot of fun to see all the nicely decorated houses.

Isn't Hamburg pretty? Why don't you come over for a visit?