One more post for today...

Here's another of the little pewter ornaments we have on our tree this year. I bought most of these at last year's Christkindlmarkt so I'm glad I am finally getting to use them. (We went home last Christmas, so we didn't have a tree.)

This ornament, as you can see, is the Weihnachtsmann, or Christmas Man, the German equivalent of Santa Claus. He is bringing the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve, I think, which is when the German children open their presents. Not on Christmas morning!

On Christmas morning we will wake up in Munich and open our presents (American style), but then we'll get on a train and go to Vienna for a short visit. We are both looking forward to going back there -- we visited there separately in the summer of 1988 when we were traveling in Europe. We always said we'd like to go back there together someday, and now's our chance. I bought our train tickets on Wednesday.