Virtual Birthday Party, Day 2

[wiseheart]

Dear all,

Day 1 of the party has been a great success: 170 comments on 2 pages so far. As agreed, I hereby kick off the second day, so that we won't lose everything like last year, should LJ crash our party again.

Threads of interest can still be commented on, but I ask you to start any new threads here from now on

And now: on with the party!!!

Comments

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Mmmm... I'm a real marzipan fan, though I don't often like it with chocolate. As a child, I used to pick apart Christmas cake and eat the marzipan layer first (then the icing, then the cake, which as a child I didn't much like).

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Then you and Mr EA should visit Budapest during Advent again. The same marzipan manufacture has its stand - similar to the one on the picture above - on the Christmas market the whole time.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

That would be lovely! I really enjoyed the Christmas market.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I, too, would love to see you again. And Mum, too. She was a bit disappointed last time that she couldn't meet you, but I didn't know how much we would walk around the city, and her legs aren't what they used to be.

Edited b/c I can't type.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I'd love to meet your mother too! I think when we were with you, your mother was still recovering from surgery, so hopefully she is feeling rather more up to strange visitors now.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, she's up and bouncing around again, thank God... well, as much as an 81-year-old can bounce. *g* And she loves to meet new people, even if she can't talk to them. She doesn't speak English. So, unless either of you can German or French, it will be grinning at each other nicely. ;)

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Mr EA's mother still bounces even though she's 87, I think. I gather one of Mr EA's grandmothers was still bouncing into her 90s but I don't know if she's on the maternal side.

Mr EA lived in Germany for a couple of years just before we met, but his German is very rusty. We both have tourist French, but it's a bit thin these days. So it looks like grinning it is!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Well, grinning is good, too. :)