06/27/09

JUST MARRIED
Today was the big day! My sister Tina and my brother-in-law Alex got married.

It was just the perfect day! My sister looked outstanding and beautiful. We both were pretty calm at the morning but as soon as we’re sitting in the car, I looked at her and said “That’s it” and she just looked at me and replied “Yes, that’s’ it”! WOW!
The ceremony was nice, but very official. The church wedding instead was very emotional for everybody! Both looked so gorgeous! And as it was my part to hold the intercession I almost lost it! It was just a very emotional moment and I’m so indescribable happy for them!
Sixteen cars build a convoy from the church to the restaurant – pretty amazing how effect full some honking cars can be :-)!
After we toasted to the married couple, they were cutting the delicious weeding cake and afterwards Alex was giving his gift to Tina! He pimped up her Car: the windows got a black foil on it and the whole car got some colored and pretty motives on it. It looks very cool – I’ll take a picture of it soon and show it to you guys! Anyway, Tina loved it!
Now it was time for some fun games and pictures. And the guest started to write in the guestbook and also took some pictures in the prepared photo corner. There was a digital Camera on a tripod with an automatic releaser – so every guest could go there by themselves and take some funny pictures of them. There were also provided a few different hats. I don’t know how much different pictures I took that night but I think I got at least one pictures with every second guest … good times *lol*!
After we got served dinner, the couple started with the First Dance – along with the Band, it was just another great moment! After a while all the other guest started dancing too. The band was just awesome and did a great job.

All in all it was just the perfect day! And I wish them all my love and all the best for their marriage!

06/22/09

I’m in Munich now; here I can spend some quality time with my sister. She is already nervous because of the wedding and since I’m the Maid of Honor I need to amuse her a little bit *lol*!
Since she is still working though, it was time to see Madeleine today. She took the day off from work and came to Munich too. We meet at the central station here and just teared up and hugged each other for the first minutes. Than we went into the city, had American breakfast (scrambled eggs with bacon) and made an English guided sightseeing tour – and of course we met some people from MASS there. Two young kids, who start going to college there, didn’t have to say much but still funny guys. Later we had a late Lunch at a Mexican Restaurant – old memories. And as always the day went by way to fast – saying goodbye sucked. Even now since we both life in Europe, we’re still too fare a part :-(! But just a couple of weeks and I’ll see her in Dresden for my Birthday and I’ll do a return visit to Linz, Austria at the beginning of August!

Later tonight, I picked up my sister from work and together we went to an original Bavarian Biergarten (beer garden) and had some Obatzer (a typical Bavarian cream cheese made from Camembert and Wheat beer) with pretzel and same spaetzle.

06/21/09

Since I’m home I can’t take a break from celebrating – yesterday we already had the next pre-wedding party from Tina and Alex. We Germans called “Polterabend” which means the Eve-of-Wedding Party. But it’s not quiet true, since the wedding will be next weekend but it was fun anyway.
This time we were around 60 to 70 people: family, friends and co-workers. The couple and their parents organized a huge BBQ/cookout on the property the will build a house in a few years. Everything was just great and once again they had to do some funny games and got already some nice gifts. It’s an old habit to bring old dishes and throw them on the ground. The shard (the broken pieces of the dishes) should bring luck to the couple. I personally love this habit, it brings just so much fun with it and by the time the couple tries to clean up everybody is just bringing more dishes. Well, if you got married you need a lot of luck!!
Everybody had a blast and I got to see most of my family after two years – kind of strange but well, sooner or later it would have happen anyway.

06/20/09

Last night we celebrated my sisters Bachelorette Party and we had a lot of fun. Hopefully soon I can upload some pictures, so you guys can see it too!
We started with some Champagne and Dinner at the Sky Café in Dresden – from there you have a nice view over the city. My sister didn’t really know that her friends are coming too; she just thought I take her out for some coffee. But I’ll never forget her face as she saw the white Limousine waiting for her outside of the restaurant. I still hear her saying “But they are not waiting for us, are they?”. Way too funny! We took some pictures with the Limousine and somehow my sister got on it too … crazy. And again, we got another Champagne and another, and another…! We drove at least for an hour through the city; sometimes we stopped, got out of the car and my sister needed to accomplish some funny games. And everybody was just looking and taking pictures of us. Later on we also meet her fiancé and his friends. Now even more random people took pictures of them and the group.
After a while we needed to say goodbye to the Limousine but started walking through the city – still we had more work to do for the bride-to-be. Here just a couple of her tasks: 3 reason for marriage and 3 reasons against marriage – Find a guy with the same first name than your fiancé – Collect 5 cell phone numbers from single men – Take a picture with 5 strangers – Sell 30 red Roses to random people on the street. All the tasks were completed but selling the roses was the success fullest of all of them. Tina sold 30 red Roses for 75€ … how crazy! That financed our third round in the bar *lol*!
Not sure when I was home last night, I just remember that we all had a blast and a great, great time! Thanks to all the girls who helped me to organize this party for my sister and for making it so special!!

06/17/09

I just came back home and everything is just weird. All the cars and streets seem so small and even my parent’s house seems different and smaller than I remembered. I already know that it will take a whole lot to realize all this.

Our flight was okay, even though Marcel and I couldn’t sleep. We watched some movies, tried all the Lufthansa food and had a few drinks. At the airport in Munich was it time to say good bye to Marcel – pretty sad! It just felt lonely from there one and I had to wait two more hours for my flight to Leipzig! But the second flight was on time and after an hour I was back ‘home’ (btw: where exactly is home?). By the time I was coming out from the airport my parents weren’t even there, they were late – how typically for my family. But my anger went a little down as my Dad picked me up in a convertible black Mercedes – what a nice, nice car! Of course all my luggage couldn’t fit but my Mom and my Brother were there too. So they could take home all my stuff.

Now it’s around 4pm here – which means 10pm in Boston. I’m awake since almost 36 hours – I hate having a jet lag. But I could finish the last work for my sisters Bachelorette Party.

For now I’ll go to bed!
Good night everyone!