Noëëëëëël!

Once again, I don't know in what language to write...but as Sébi said, the best way to tell you about our little "colocation parfaite du Simplon" christmas trip in Gütersloh at our grandmother's is to show you some pictures. Anyway I don't have time to write much these days. Well, we were taken care of like kings, served three meals a day and given millions of presents. Our dearests Catha and Dada were "aux petits soins avec nous". We discovered the effects (good and bad) of the famous "Jubi" (Jubileums Aquavit), a strong danish alcohol which is part of the tradition of our German familiy. Cheeeeers Otto! As you can see Alex and me couldn't drink it without making faces!
And yes, as you haven't noticed, I cut my hair (that's why I seem to have lost 10 years of age!).
After four days of eating and enjoying cosy family life with the grandparents, the aunt and the dogs, we traveled back to Switzerland and stopped at our other grandma's house in Bevaix, where we went right on to partying with our cousins, Yessa, Céline and Séb. Séb is leaving for Australia for 3 months, Yessa and Céline were leaving for Bremen, I'll soon be leaving for Boston and Mexico, so there was a lot of reasons to party for (not that we needed any;-)!)
Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all of you!

Advent, Advent!

Comme Javier en avait marre d'être le premier élément à apparaître sur le blog, surtout en femme de ménage, je suis obligée de le mettre à jour et d'écrire un petit chapitre de l'avent. Alors chez nous, l'avent ça se fête avec sapin, bougies, et cocktails exotiques (je vous prie de noter le glaçage des verres, fait par Sandrine et moi!En revanche, on ne peut pas se vanter d'être les auteurs des deux jolies demoiselles qui tiennent les verres, mais je peux vous dire que c'est Gaëlle et Audrey. Et en fait les cocktails, c'est l'idée d'Alex, c'est elle qui a tout organisé, donc Sandrine et moi, on était que des aides de cuisine). Guillaume décoré d'une guirlande argentée c'était un petit extra pour la soirée. Et Amandine si jamais, c'est une copine de ma soeur, donc je ne peux me porter garante de ce qu'elle fait...je ne suis d'ailleurs pas très sûre de savoir moi-même ce qu'elle fait. Et lendemain des cocktails de l'avent, bien sûr, petits bonnets d'elfes du Père Noël!!!! Youhou! C'est le mémoire, ça nous réussit pas trop à Javier et moi...et Alex on ne dira pas ce qui ne lui réussit pas trop;-) Merry Christmas!

Life goes on...

Well nothing new here. Life's going on normally with our mémoire mess in the room: there's books, papers and computers everywhere and a lot of grey cell activity (we hope!). Fortunately, from time to time, we also have to do the laundry or clean the apartment, so we can take a little break (from the pictures it looks as if Javi was doing it all, but that's not true...not entirely let's say. We just hope his dad won't see this, you know for a mexican that's quite unusual;-) But I know my Dad would be proud;-)!!).
Oh and yesterday we had some friends over (yes, we are not that pathetic yet that we can't see our friends anymore!), very international like always. Yes, we had an Austrian Lady, a Dutch fun-maker of the Austrian Lady, a Danish dancer, a Canadian who wants to become a Mexican Mum, a Mexican cook and two German-Swiss blonds!
As I said, just normal life going on...