2008

Happy New Year!

New Year's Eve was fun. During the day, we cleaned a lot, then we got ready and went to church for the 4 o'clock mass. It was packed. After church, Courtney's friend Emily came home with us - she spent the night. A little later, Ms Amber and her family came over. They have an exchange student now, too - Daniella from South Korea. All of us kids had pizza for dinner down in the basement. We spent most of the night playing Wii and keeping Baby Vito busy. I helped Grayson make all of his puzzles and had so much fun playing soccer with Vito :D it's so cute, he's running after the ball and kicks it pretty well already. "Bamla" or something like that means ball ;)
At about 10 to midnight we watched the New Year's Eve celebration at Times Square in New York on TV (pretty much like those New Year's Eve concerts in Germany) and when the countdown started, we ran upstairs to wish everybody a Happy New Year.
We kids got some anti-alcoholic champagne ;) everybody hugged everybody and we continued watching the show for a while. They don't really do fireworks here because a lot of it is forbidden. After another hour or so, Ms Amber and her family left and we all went to bed.
I had a lot of fun... although it definitely was kinda weird to not have my family or friends from Germany with me during the countdown.

2008! Oh my god, I can't really believe it...