Last night was the technical university ball (Felix attended university there). It started at 9 pm! That's pretty close to my bedtime....the whole midnight thing with Cinderella makes more sense now! You start the evening by squeezing into the main ballroom (which is gorgeous! see picture below where the masses of people are!). There they have the opening ceremony, where you can't really see anything, but can hear what is going on. It took forever though, so that's kinda a rough way to start a night where you are on your feet anyways! We also got to walk around the palace and see the many other ballrooms. The different ballrooms have various styles of music. We got to waltz in the main ballroom and Cha-cha-cha. We had lots of fun, but got extremely tired and headed home around 2 a.m. Sadly, there was not as much dancing done as we would have liked. It's hard when there are so many other people on the dance floor and when your feet get tired! But we did enjoy a wonderful evening together!! I'm so thankful for being able to attend something like this with my sweet husband!
For 16 weeks now, we have had a young refugee couple from Syria living with us. They have been married a little over a year and for the majority of that time have been separated from each other, since he made the journey to Austria alone and got everything in order so that she could come legally. Let me backtrack a bit and tell you how it all started. As the refugee crisis really started to explode here, facebook was buzzing with articles, videos, pictures, etc. of the situation. I read a lot. I saw a lot. I was moved. I was troubled. But what could I do? I had a three year old and one year old at home. ... I could teach some German. But when? ... I could donate clothes and other items that were needed. But that didn't seem like enough. ... I could give money. But I wanted something more tangible. I would put my youngest to bed and during those days, she needed lots of TLC in order to get to sleep. I kept thinking about the refugees and how they didn't
So fun! Love the pictures. Let's skype soon and you can tell me all about it! You look goregous by the way!
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