Christmas Dinner.

Time for updates since I am back.

Have been ignoring my mails, facebook, msn and skype over the weekend.

The 3 weeks away from home felt so good and refreshing.

Just spending quality time with dani while doing nothing was really great.

I realised that i tend to lose track of time when we are together.

I couldn’t differentiate the days, the dates and more importantly, the time.'

Frankly, 3 weeks went by too quickly.

Time simply flew by.

Anyway, back to updates.

18th December 2009.

Spent my first Christmas away from home.

Had a simple Christmas dinner with dani’s family the day before we left for our trip.

Dinner was only bread with cold meat and side dishes, served with champagne.

Totally different from what we have at home during christmas.

Nevertheless, it was a really quiet and private yet intimate dinner.

I received a pair of snowboarding socks and a set of adidas socks from dani’s parents.

While i gave them a chinese tea pot set for christmas.

Dani got an adidas scarf which was put into good use during our trip.

We went last-minute shopping for his parents’ present on that day itself.

Got his mom a Calvin Klein perfume which he picked out himself and his dad a set of Parker pens.

I wanted to get Jan a lego play set cause he had a gift for me but i didn’t managed to find anything suitable in the end.

But Jan got a Monopoly set from Dani & Fabian anyway.

Everyone loved their gifts received and it was such a good feeling to know that your thoughts and well wishes are appreciated.

I didn’t bring out my gift for dani that night because we decided that we should do our gift exchange on Christmas eve itself.

Our plan was to take a walk at the Christmas markets after dinner

Cause i really want to see what a Christmas market is about.

So we drove into Linz.

But to our dismay, everything was closed.

The night was freezing at –15 deg.

My face was frozen still and i couldn’t feel my features.

I remembered asking dani to check if my ears were still on stuck on my head,

Something which almost got him rolling in the snow laughing.

Cold and miserable,

We only wanted a shelter and a cup of hot punsch.

But there no Christmas markets and no bars for us to pop in for a hot drink either.

Something which we attributed to our bad luck.

But somehow, i think i’m the bad luck girl who brings us bad luck.

We went home cold, frozen and empty handed.

Day 1 in Austria was good anyway.

I was tucked into bed, with a kiss and plenty of warmth.

And i drifted off to sleep in no time.