New Years Eve

This NYE was prolly one of the best ones that I have ever been apart of.  I was able to go to a bar with a group of my friends and watch a live band right up until midnight.  Right before midnight the bar was shut down and everyone was asked to go outside.  The bar supplied us with a glass of Champaign and a fireworks show.  Apparently Germany is big on the fireworks for NYE.  Everyone is able to buy them, and they are not the tiny ones we sell in Michigan,  and sets them off everywhere at midnight.  So the sky lights up all around you for a good ten minutes.  I took a ton of pictures through out the night but I will show you a few of my favorites.

My ladies and I on NYE

 

The band

 

A group of my friends at the bar supporting our friend Reed in the band.

 

Reed happens to be my boyfriend 🙂

Christmas Parties

Even though I was not home for all of my usual Christmas parties this year I still managed to go to a few of them over here.  I was invited to a party with my best friends.  I was able to dress up in my fancy dress which is always fun for a girl.  They served us dinner, had drinks, and of course games and prizes.

These next few are from my “mandatory fun” work Christmas party.  You can tell how much fun I was having.

My supervisor  had us over for dinner again.  This time she made Mexican rice and tacos for our Christmas dinner.  Here is a last min. picture of the girls from my office.

Christmas Market

Ok so I might of been a bit busy over the holidays and neglected writing to my wonderful friends and family.  But in a way it was a great thing that I stayed busy because I was rather worried that it was going to be a sad, depressing, and lonely few weeks.  Christmas over here is pretty different than back in the states, it is calm.  They have a ton of Christmas markets that people go to, you can buy stuff but it is mostly food and alcohol.  The houses don’t have Christmas lights on them, and from what I can tell they use tiny Christmas trees instead of the huge ones that we like to use back homes.  Here are a few pictures from my first Christmas market that I went to with everyone from work.