One last ornament. This pink clippy bird is one of my two favorites on the tree. (The other is the orange clippy bird that matches it.) I bought them at Ludwig Beck department store in Munich.

It's not every day one turns 35. To celebrate, Marty and I went to the Glyptothek, the Munich museum housing ancient Greek and Roman sculptures. It was a great place and I'm sure I'll go back. I can't wait to go in the spring when their outdoor cafe is open. We had dinner at the Spaten Haus, my favorite restaurant here. It was a really nice day, and a fun way to spend my birthday.

Yesterday (unrelated to birthday celebrations) we went to see the Lord of the Rings at the English cinema. The whole trilogy, I mean. Wow. It was really good, seeing the movies all together like that. But wow. That was a really long day at the movies. A triple feature, of 3+ hour movies, with breaks in between... you do the math.

And Sam is my favorite hobbit.