Christmas celebration

This year our family Christmas celebration was once again at our place.
Preperations were a bit stressful from time to time but the work really was worth it.

The Christmas tree was wonderfull. It's the straightest one I've ever found. The prices for the trees are rather high in my opinion. Our tree cost 25 Euros, an artificial one of the same size would cost about 50 and would pay of in the second year. But the beauty and warmth of mother natures real trees is just too sovereign and so we will stay with the real ones. Julia did a great job with the decoration.



The times before we had raclette but this year we decided to try it with cold cuts. It was excelent and more than enough. A great plus of cold cuts instead of raclette is the lack of intense smell.



And here are two photos of our beautiful window decoration. Julia just bought the one for the small window this year. Looks great!



I guess it was a wonderful celebration for everyone. To bad my granny couldn't come, but she had some serious pain in her back.

Merry Christmas!

I wish everybody all around the world a very merry Christmas and a peacefull time!

This should be time of freedom and without anger!

Peace to the world!!!

Picture by Thomas Kinkade

Christmas fair in Seebenstein

On Saturday we visited the Christmas fair in Seebenstein. It's great! You walk through the castle park along the stands with Christmas decorations, gifts and of course a lot to drink and eat.
All along the way there are candles on the ground and huge torches. The route goes all around the big pond and creates a fantastic atmosphere.
To bad it was to dark to take some great pictures of the fair and the castle on the top of the hill without a tripod. But I found a nice one of a huge torch (or whatever these things are really called) on the web.