Happy New Year! After a very eventful holiday season, Brenda and I are on the train to Berlin for a revival of Ariadne auf Naxos. We feel really fortunate to have spent so much time with friends over the holiday season. Here are a few photos from our festivities:
Our friends, Barb and Michael, invited us over to their home again this year for Christmas Eve dinner. Every year they make an amazing meal, which includes baked ziti, garlic bread and shortbread.
After Brenda's Lucia di Lammermoor performance on the 27th, we met up with our friends, the Schuberts, who came into town to see Brenda's show and to have dinner with us. Lucky for us, they are very willing to travel, so we've gotten to see them in Frankfurt, Munich, and Schwarzenberg, Austria. We plan on traveling to see them next month in their hometown and seeing Susanne and Andreas perform in Weber's Der Freischütz with their marionette opera company.
Brenda lit the "sugar hat" this year during our annual Feuerzangenbowle evening. Of course, Brenda didn't get to drink any of the delicious concoction because it contains alcohol, but we found a very good non-alcoholic mulled wine for her to enjoy. By the way, our friend, Adelin, hid behind Brenda in this picture, but her shadow gives her away.
It was a very foggy New Year's Eve in Frankfurt this year. As is traditional in Frankfurt, people head to the streets close to midnight to set off fireworks. The fact that they couldn't see the fireworks once they shot into the air didn't seem to deter the revelers.
Brenda enjoying the view from the train. We even saw snow, which is surprising considering how warm it's been in Frankfurt recently. When we got to Berlin, it was around fourteen degrees fahrenheit (-10 celsius). Brr!
We've got internet in Berlin so I will do my best to return to our normal blogging schedule. That means I'll be writing you again in a couple days. Talk to you then!
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