New Year's Eve

Happy New Year Everyone! We hope this next year brings you many blessings!

We spent the evening in Bamburg, Germany. We started by playing Apples to Apples and Catan. Around 10:00, we went outside to shoot off some fireworks. The people's house we were at was right in the market square. Outside their place was a big open space where a lot of people were gathering. We had two bags full of different things to blow up. Jay was in heaven!!! We stayed out in the middle of the square until 11:45. We still had a lot fireworks left, but it was getting too full out in the middle. Everyone else also brought their share of fireworks and were shooting them off. There were fireworks shooting sideways down the street and small little explosives being thrown into groups of people. So, we went and stood against their building so we could see what was going on and get out of the way. Midnight was absolutely crazy. It was a chaos of people and fireworks. We went inside around 12:15 and watched the rest from the window. To end the night, we played a couple rounds of Rock Band. Neither of us had played it, but have heard a lot about it. It was fun, but it took too much concentration at that time of night after a long plane flight. We had a great night and we're too excited when we got home that it took us a couple of hours to fall asleep! Well worth it!

In front of the Christmas tree in the Market Square

Before the excitement began!

View from the fourth floor

Even I got to shoot a few off!

We played with some sparklers too!

Deep in concentration playing Rock Band.