We have wrapped up the holiday season and enjoyed a magnificent vacation and we are ready to start off the year with a bang! We hosted a casual potluck dinner at our house on New Year's Eve and had about 8 families attend. There was marvelous food and our kids all got together and planned out impromptu skits for entertainment, we've got some talent in this group, and no stage fright.
At around 11 p.m. we lit sparklers from the terrace and afterwards ventured in to town to watch fireworks. What we didn't realize is that German people are crazy when it comes to fireworks and we now know why they only allow them to set off fireworks 4 days in a year. The locals will set off their own fireworks right in the middle of a crowd and pay no attention to what direction the fireworks shoot off to. It is SO scary. Add to the mixture some alcohol and you've got a big mess on your hands. We saw one firework fly through the air and land in the hood of a woman's coat on her back, a child holding one after he lit it and kept handing it to others until it finally fell down and people sticking their lit fireworks in the snow, regardless of the angle it was directed. Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt in our group, but Jacoba did get hit in the head and a couple of people got junk in their eyes...it was really creepy. We wished someone had warned us about how crazy it can get, but we will always remember the start of 2011 and it puts new meaning into, "start off with a bang", hmmm, we've heard that somewhere before...
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