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In reply to the discussion: It's been a good Christmas. What did you get? [View all]DFW
(54,341 posts)I was with my wife and two daughters plus my wife's mom. There's nothing material I really want, and that's pretty much what I got. Our daughters got us a painting of two flamingoes on a black background by a young artist who is up and coming in Europe and was originally a Düsseldorf artist. He now lives in Denmark (Danish GF), but they somehow managed to get this here to Germany. VERY imaginative, as they usually are. Perfect!
Other than that I got my wife a small trinket from Bavaria, gave my girls some money and got my mom in law an exotic-looking salad bowl and salad fork and spoon made in Tunesia out of olive wood.
My wife and I are already in the airport (not yet 6 AM here) waiting to leave for the USA. Everyone else is leaving for somewhere later on, and we are leaving the house in the hands of a married couple from Kazakhstan who are trying to finish a house of their own, but haven't completed it yet. They get the run of ours while we are away.