this christmas

what did u do this christmas? gave ur heart to someone else? haha... the song kept playing on radio in the car trips so just can't help it.

this is the second living room in the house downstairs. seldom used. yeelin and i decorated the christmas tree yesterday, every branch has one piece of decoration. haha...and we still have some we did not put up.

this is what we had for our christmas eve dinner at aunt friend's chinese restaurants. 3 families including the owner's. 12 of us. just a small affair with some simple dishes. yummy...chinese herbal soup, steamed fish, stirfried mushroom,pumpkin, prawns and roasted duck. i din have any vege because i dun take pumpkin but i had lots of the others. haha..luckily i din take rice, dunno how to eat the dishes then.

and today...we had pork chop, sausage, potato and salad at home. call it our christmas dinner. yeelin is going out with friends to disco again...that is the place where german youths hang out i guess. music, dancing and drinking.

this is just a random shot of bread counter....yummy...love them...every morning have them for breakfast without fail. ahaha.


this is bad ems's rathaus....haha...so pathetic compared to the others i have got from the big cities. oh, i have visited the 3 biggest cities in germany in this trip- berlin, hamburg and munich. i wonder which is the 4th biggest.

emser-therme, the indoor swimming pool in bad ems. entrance fee not including sauna is €5.10. i went with yeelin. they have outdoor and indoor pool. the water was so comforting and warm that it was difficult to get ourselves to go after 90 mins. could not stay any longer ah...skin also wrinkled and dehydrated. and ooh...the first thing that greeted me when we were in the locker room (unisex)...haha...i turned around, and behind me a dangling carrot with two nuts...if u get what i mean. then when we went into the shower room (female only) before going into the pool, two balls staring again. luckily there was no more after that. it is a common scene here and in australia too i think...but we will never get used to it.

the plot outside the house where vegetables are planted in summer.

and on the left, behind the hedge, is where i stay. the house is the one painted in white...this corner lot. it is very long because of the lawn in front.

one corner before reaching the house from bad ems town centre. we walked home in the drizzle after our swim.