I can tell you that we first where pretty shocked when the young man walked out with a torch and a little jerrycan filled with pyrofluid (and, of course, a bottle of water to get rid of the taste). People started to say "No, Tobi won't do this, won't he?!". But he did and as the pub resides in a street where there are several others there was enough audience to apreciate it.

Gunshots?!:scared: No... no guns around here in the hands of any civilian. Just fireworks and some crackers, but it looked to me that people prefer on colorful things more than on noisy ones meanwhile. I, myself, prefered to spend on cinammon liquor and cappucino instead and simply watch the fireworks and the waiter of the pub who went out on the street and made a little fire-eater show  

Oh wow, well that's what I call exhausted. I mean: Even if I would have a desire to sleep on old year's eve it would not be possible because of all those fire crackers outside. I can tell you that two of our three cats had eyes as big as saucers yesterday and quickly found a safe place under the bed when the crazyness started somewhere around 22.00. The third one was highly fascinated by the fireworks and sat down behind the window directly above the crossroads where people started their rockets - he is deaf

I just pop in to say Hi and happy new year to the whole Antonia-crowd and fans... and to say sorry that I was not able to contribute something to the big Give-Away. But the season, work and last but not least our wedding kept me busy. And, yes, as closer as christmas came I found that I deserve a little break

Awwww... sorry to hear this Thalek, we had the same thing last week with our teleheating. But as the problem was within the house the problem could be solved before christmas. I hope that you have enough blankets and inner warmth to withstand the cold!!

Hello all,

we will look into the double uploaded file(s) when christmas is over. At the moment Leo is cooking (pasties with goulash and vegetables, Donauwellen-Torte for dessert is already done) and I am finished with decorating the tree.

Have a nice and warm christmas you all, whereever you are at the moment!!

I can't resist...

Here's the official location:

http://antonia.bluecho4u3d.com/freestuff.php

Glitterati was so kind to split everything into three files so that people on dial-up connetctions shouldn't have problems to get their Antonia WM as well (all files are under 30 MB).

And now: Nighty night...

If you would have seen how very puzzled the young women was when Leo said (with his loud voice and Berlin accent): "Look, there she is - the bestseller-girl!", you wouldn't have asked her for a picture as well Poor thing, she was so much "in a different movie" then we where!

But then we told here the story as brief as possible and I added "and you have the same nice bodyshape!" (it's always better when women say things like this to women to not be misunderstood) and she was all smile!

Not to steal your thunder, SaintFox, but I just want to let everyone know:

You can't steal my thunder dear - in opposite you made me even happier than I already was. Yeehaw!!! There she is, the almost real artificial girl. Funny enough: Yesterday we had a little snack and there she came - a sweet looking waitress with a figure shape and face like Antonia and the little sign she wear on her shirt told me that her name is... Antonia!

We had a lot to do to explain why we got so excited over her - but in the end she understood and gave us a broad smile showing... braces! Now I know what is needed to round out Antonia's smile ;o)*

Awww... thanks a lot! And, Les: You see that I do what I've promised although I am so photo-shy. The landlord of our favorite pub came as a guest to the ceremony and I immediatly thought of what you asked for and forced him to do a nice photo with us all together. He's the one to blame for the cinammon liquor as well and the reason that keeps me from posting the very last pictures taken 16 hours later...

I found a (strangely manipulated) photo of the house where the registrar's office is you see in the background of the first photo and a view of the side of the marketplace. That's the place where we will celebrate our church wedding together with (so far) 21 more couples and their guests in June. Just for those who are interested and NOT to derail the thread (that I call my home here). Too bad that the church (the strange one with the different towers you can see on the linked photo, one represents the church, one the town) is only 50 meters away. The church is offering oldtimers and horse carriages for all the couples to drive to their churches. As ours is the one in the image we are a bit double minded: Nicest church in town, simplest way to get to it: Per pedes...

http://galerie.kreatifo.de/d/1630-2/Lemgo_Marktplatz.jpg

http://www.lemgo.net/uploads/tx_srsendcard/pics/sr_sendcard_4ca92da1f2.jpg

You are perfectly right. Poor guy! Until now he had to serve me coffee to the bed each morning to convince me to marry him. Now he has to stay in bed while I fix the coffee so that I convince him to not regret what he did yesterday. Can't life be any harder?!