Birthday flowers

Photo: (c) Heike, Pixelio

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On Saturday, 1st May, I celebrated my 36th birthday, together with my friends Uli, Renate, Marina and Steffi. At first, we stayed in my flat, drank some coffee or medium mineral water (I had bought that especially for Marina and Steffi, they could be as drunken as Crazy Frog, haha) and were as always very funny. My hamster Slayer were asleep most of the time but nevertheless he did not hole up in his little cot, he lied in his straw so he could realize anything that happened around him ;o). Slayer is a very curious little animal.

I was pleased to get some nice gifts like, for example, the book "Sorry, we missed the runway - strange things out of the cockpit", spoons and forks, a tall cup with a fitting saucer, an ashtray, some fruity baby food (though I'm just 36 I still like that, as Marina and Steffi know very well) and a DVD from Metallica but unfortunately the DVD did not run on my player. I have to find out whether it has to do with the DVD or with my player :o(.

In the early evening, we went to a restaurant only a few hundred meters away from my home. Of course she took some fotos of us, my stuffed animals, my South Park mirror with Kenny, flowers, the outside of the restaurant and so on and so on. It was the first time we saw a black tulip in a front garden in my street! Of course, Marina took a picture of that black tulip, too! She also took a picture of Steffi pointing at violet tulips because their colour fitted very well to Steffi's vest. Especially Marina, Steffi and me are used to point at several things, mostly pineapples, of course ;o)).

In the restaurant, my girls ate asparagus in different variations. I like asparagus, too, but my mom had told me that she will do it for me the next day (my parents don't like asparagus), so I did not want to eat the evening before, too. Therefore, I chose some Cordon Bleu (steak filled with cheese and ham), French fries and vegetables. As expected, Marina sometimes talked to her meal but this is not unusual for us - I sometimes talk to my meals, too, I talk to my stuffed animals and so on and so on ;o). Renate gave me another stuffed animal as a present and I call the grey, smiling mouse Friedhelm, though my parents think that this name is quite crackbrained.

The restaurant we visited is not far away from the Southwest Cemetery. Steffi told me that her grandpa is buried there - fortunately there was no funeral ceremony Steffi could make love at, hehe. In Germany, the 1st May is public holiday, so at this day no funerals take place at all and even on Saturday it's quite rare that there are any burials. Funerals normally take place between Monday and Friday, mostly in the morning or short before noon.