Darmstadt!

Hello! Well, I lied about the lack of entries before Christmas. I am sitting in Darmstadt at this very moment. I have not been in this house in 8 years. It is so nice to be back! Vera and her sister Henrike will arrive tomorrow by train from Cologne. Gisela and I will go into town in the late morning, and do a little shopping. I will hopefully find the rest of Scott's present here somewhere!! If not, I have something I can buy for him in England. :-)

I am so happy to be here. I cannot explain it. I had such a great time here 8 years ago, I have many fond memories of my short 6 weeks here. I am looking forward to being a part of Christmas here again. I am sad to leave Scott behind, on what is our first Christmas away from home together. But at the same time, we are not joined at the hip, so to speak. We have just postponed our Christmas day for a few days. A trip to Oxford for the day sounds good to me!

It is cold here too, so I get a white Christmas. YAY!!!! Apparently, it's my fault it snows at Christmas. Let me explain... When I was here last, in 1996, it was the coldest Christmas in 50 years or something. So when I woke up on the 23rd of December that year and looked out the window, it was all white. It is really hard to describe what I felt at that moment, looking out onto all that snow for the first time. Just breathtaking! And so this year, it is snowing again at Christmas, for my benefit of course! I think it's great that I can control the weather so well. I should get paid for that!!

I am looking forward to checking out the town I spent so much time in all those years ago. Do a bit of shopping. Maybe they have Christmas markets like they used to. I can't wait!!

So that's all for now. Toodles!!