Just stay a little bit longer!

I'm not referring to the cough that became a part of my life after our first concert at the beginning of the month. I've had worse, but as we neared our next concert and it wasn't really getting any better, I got a bit worried. The evening before we departed to Kiel (waaaay up north), Maria had me take the kids sledding in the below-freezing weather. My thoughts: "What the heck, I'm coughing, I have a concert this weekend and you tell me to go out in this weather?!?" I don't know if that really made it worse, but I wasn't able to sing that weekend at all. I lip-synced to the whole concert. But if you want to listen to us, here's a recording we (minus my voice) made: Kammerchor Vocalis: Noel, die heilige Nacht

Tuesday, I picked up my mom from the train station. Best Christmas Present Ever! The stupid thing was that my mom stayed with our exchange student's family because of the concert. And I couldn't even sing. Oh well. Anyways, my mom and I had a lot of fun. We looked at town, went shopping, etc. We talked and watched movies together. And on Saturday, we went to this place called the Autostadt (car city). VW has a factory and a museum thing in Wolfsburg, which is rather close. They had a bunch of cars from the beginning of the automobile down to Lamborghini and even a Bugatti Veyron. Wow. Oh, and they had this special thing at the park where performers came from the Alps. So we got to listen to a traditional brass band (with accordion!), see some dances from the old days, and listen to Alpenhörner. What are those, you ask?  Be glad I took a picture! 

The whole thing was really cool. I love any German-speaking land culture and history, so this was extra awesome.

Speaking of German culture, I finally got to celebrate Advent properly. I wasn't really in the mood though, because Mom was leaving the next day and I wasn't getting any time with her. Not only did we eat together and such, but then we had to go caroling down the street. I was downright miserable. 

I don't really want to leave on such a sad note, but nobody wants to read a freaking novel here. I'll report on Christmas soon :)