Happy Happy Happy

The New Year's celebrations kicked off with 'Dinner for one' on tv at Claudia's place whilst making some pizza. It is quite interesting that all over the world it is the same tv show that is being shown on New Year's Eve.

Claudia and I got on a tram where we met a number of other guests of the same party (friends of Claudia) which was held at yet another friend's place (Andi). It was really well organised (well, what would you expect!) With beers, snacks and a bar table with all the mixers (and recipes laminated against the wall) to make various cocktails.

The fireworks show in Munchen was really really awesome, especially as we are not so used to fireworks in Cape Town (it was basically banned a few years back). I'll still see if I can figure out how to use the video posting thingy on this blog and try to post a video clip I made of the fireworks.

The evening was in the end really nice and I had a great time. In this I have to thank Claudia and her friends (Moni, Kathi, Ina, Ludwig, Florian, Mathias, et al) for making me feel welcome (and not minding to speak english a lot, as it probably was quite a pain to have to switch to english every time I joined the conversation).

As the public transport only started running just before 6am again we made full use of the night and partied till late... I was quite tired by the time that I finally got on the train, so much so that I ended up falling asleep and only waking up in a place called Zorneding. Having to wait for 24 minutes for the return train, although not so funny at the time, was in hindsight quite humourous as it was obvious that I wasn't the only one who fell asleep when 3 other people also got off and joined me for the return journey in the direction of Munchen.

All in all a very enjoyable and fun night!

ps: Louby, does this put even more pressure on you for my entertainment plans next week?