Talking about family: my "real one" was here for the holidays! "Here" as in "Steinhude", a place not far from Neustadt at a great lake (small inner sea). A few days before, I got a visit from Willem as well. We met in Bremen, not far from both Neustadt as Enschede, and there we visited the Universum, a great science museum that can best be compared to the NEMO in Amsterdam. Of course we saw also the Bremer City Musicians and the old innercity, which was really nice, and had dinner at a "dutch" pancake ship. "Dutch" between brackets, cause although they called it the "Pannekoekenboot" they didn't even had real pancake sirup! And the pancakes were somewhat lighter, containing more eggs than dutch ones. But "lecker" nevertheless.
Although I still had to babysit this week, Willem and I used my free afternoons to visit Tropicana Stadthagen (oh gorgeous swimmingpool), the Neustadt innercity and my mama, omi and sis in their appartment in Steinhude. The Merkels also were so kind to organise a dinner for my family and Willem at their place, and that was awesome. Gunnar enchanted my grandmoter almost immediatly and Malte found in Kirsten his newest play-victim. He tought at first that see was me ("Huh Silvia why are you wearing sunglasses??) and was really sad when she had gone home. His joy was indescribable when she came to visit him another day: astonished, his mouth fell open, he ran at her and gave her a big hug! I also went to Steinhude with Gunnar one morning, to visit all togheter the cute butterfly farm. Gunnar liked it a lot. Another day we went for a boat trip on the Steinhuder Lake and on Sunday we visited the Herrenhäuser Garten and the Berggarten in Hannover. I also showed them around Neustadt and stayed one night at their place. We all really had fun and great weather. Although I still had to work, it felt like a real holiday for me, too. It was great to see my dear family and Willem again and have them here in my world!
