Happy New Year - Frohes Neues Jahr

Hey Everyone! Welcome to 2006 and a New Year! Hope everyone had themselves a good one.

I started celebrating at 2pm here when I knew it was midnight at home & talked to family and got nice SMS's from friends. And then our real one was very nice and relaxed. Spent with old friends from here, at the same house in the country where we've spent a couple of Silvesters'/New Years' already in a valley near a forest. The only difference was that 8 kids joined us this year, and all but the baby made it easily until midnight when we let off the fireworks. Germans are still allowed to buy and light fireworks here unlike us in Sydney, and they tend to go over the top with the semi professional gear they burn up. From our vantage point on one side of the valley we could see and enjoy the fireworks all the way to the next village and the whole valley.

So I wish everyone a wonderful prosperous safe healthy happy love-filled year!