18 Months

Yes, we have been living here in Luxembourg for 18 months.  The official "anniversary" was last week.  On that day I thought a lot about what I should post and how in general I want to approach this important date.  But nothing significant came to my mind, and here we are few days later and I have decided how I will proceed. 

At this point of our life here, we have developed opinions, likes, and dislikes about our current residence.  Our thoughts are much more educated now.  So  I have decided that once a week I will share 3-5 random facts about our European life.  I would like to touch up about some stereotypes and just simply compare/contrast how things happen here.

During this post I will share the tradition that we have continued with this year. Here in Luxembourg, the Easter Friday is not really celebrated and Easter Monday is the celebrated holiday.  Each year Luxemburgish people attend "Peckvillerchen" - festival of birds.  There are many stalls set up in the center of the Luxembourg city and people shop for their bird.  These birds are whistles, so as you walk the streets of the downtown, you can hear the chirping everywhere despite the temperatures in high 30's.  Streets were very crowded even at 10 in the morning. 

 

This is just a picture of the stalls that sell and champagne and hotdogs.

 

... and some fun for kids.

 

Each bird has a year stamped on it.  Many collectors are able to get the older versions as well,

 

Here are our finds:

 

Easter Egg Hunt, 2013

This year things were looking much better for our kids who were used to participate in the Easter egg hunt in our church.  Last year I could not find even a single egg hunt, so we had organized a little one with one of our. friends who have smaller kids.

We have found an Easter egg hunt that were to take place in the old chateau, in France, just a 20 min. ride.  Chateau de Preisch dates back to the 12th century. Most of the original buildings are still there as well as the old  church.  The sights were magnificent.  The temperature was in the low 40s but sun made is a little nicer. Here are some pictures:

 

The hunt was designed really good.  Kids had to collect 6 eggs of six different colors and than they had to build a nest for those six eggs.  So here we are trying to made those little twigs work.

 

After this, kids had some hot chocolate and muffins.

 

Near the castle there were some bunnies and a LOT of baby sheep. Those lambs were so cute.

Ian and I were studying letter L the week before, so he was really proud that could actually see the "L" word making noises and being so cute.