Tessa’s Birthday

It’s Sunday, 2. December and it is Tessa’s birthday.  We had a busy morning packing, but managed to get it all done in the allotted time frame, despite, not because of the children I might help. We went over to Birgit’s for lunch and as usual she had the table laid out beautifully and the house was a mix of birthday and Christmas decorations, as it is also the 1. Advent…

The beautifully set table.

Lecker ‘yummy’ food, some polish, some Kiwi, some German..oops that was the wrong picture but once it’s on here I don’t know how to get it off.

That’s the one I wanted with all the food on it.

Marek

Ingrid

Die Kinder

It was very nice and relaxing as we had bigger plans for the afternoon. We had booked two bowling alleys for an hour and Tessa invited some of the girls from Jana’s and her class to come along, part birthday, part ‘thank you’ as everyone had been very nice and helpful to her.  Tessa had been to a few friend’s houses after school with Jana and on her last day she again was invited to someone’s house for a few hours. Nick and Ben were at bowling, too and the balls were a manageable weight for everyone.  I liked the colours of them, too, minor side factor…

Tessa and Nick. The polar fleece for Tessa was a present from Ingrid.

I loved the shoes, they were too cool. These ones were Ben’s.

Some time into the hour all the lights were suddenly dimmed, the disco balls came down and the place was transferred into a disco bowling alley.  Glow sticks were handed out, dry ice gave it the mysteries touch and in the group on the alley next to us a lot of screaming added (something, not sure what) to the atmosphere.

Then a ‘Happy Birthday Song’ was played and all the birthday kids in the place received a glass of delicious tropical fruit juice served with a sparkling light…

Tessa and her tropical birthday cocktail

The winners stayed in the family with Jana winning in one group and Nick in the other.

Time for dinner.  Right next door to the bowling alley is a ‘Gasthaus’, a typical German restaurant, that is quite casual and feels and looks much like a pub.

The birthday group in the Gasthaus

What is Nick drinking here…Marek??

The girls enjoyed ordering whatever they wanted from the menu and Tessa had her first ever ‘cordon bleu’, a dish I just about always ordered when we were in a ‘Gasthaus’ as children.  In fact I had it today as well.  It’s is the typical ‘Schnitzel’ with ham and cheese inside that oozes out when it is cut.  It was served with amazingly good ‘Bratkartoffeln’ (fried potatoes) with Speck (bacon).  To make myself feel better I also ordered a salad with it…

Lots of Christmas deco here involve cold looking things…

This isn’t a gordon bleu but a plain Schnitzel, and it is Ingrid’s. Mine was too fast gone, as in eaten, to be photographed.

It was nice having another chance to chat to Ingrid before leaving tomorrow, as she will not be coming to Muenich for Christmas.  Nick or Ben took a nice photo of us together, too.

Tanja und Ingrid