New Year's Day in Germany

I'm trying to post our famed New Year's Day video.  J put it on Facebook, so I'm having difficulty copying it from there onto this blog.  When I succeed, I will update this.

J and I stayed home for Christmas and New Year's.  After all of the craziness involved with choir concerts and whatnot, we wanted to not be roaming around for the actual holidays. 

Christmas was met with lots of gifts and lots of food that J wanted to make for the two of us.  We had some nice bacon-wrapped pork, lots of cheeses and dips, really good sweet potatoes, and a whole slew of other things that I don't have space to mention.

New Year's Day, from around 11:50pm through 12:40am, was fireworks coming from every other german neighbor in the town.  Each of them were launching fireworks from what seemed to be their doorsteps!  We could even hear the post-exploded firework pieces hitting the metal railing of our porch.  J had heard from a co-worker that in Amsterdam it is even crazier with some people literally throwing fireworks at each other!  We found six spent fireworks sticks in our yard the next morning.