We saw the first three of the 16 movies we got from the video-library yesterday. Annika came over again as I said so we saw movies that were her recommendations..actually this morning when I saw our pile I realised that ten of the movies she insisted we take...LOL!! Anyways she's this BIG Renee Zellwegger fan (she even made us see 'Bridget Jones' Dairy') so yesterday we saw two of RW movies...the first was 'A Price Above Rubies' (1998). In it Sonia (RW) is a member of a closed Hasidic community, who doesn't feel comfortable about religious rules and restrictions, and constantly breaks them, upsetting her relatives. Pretty interesting movie...the second one was a silly light movie for TP - 'Nurse Betty'(2000) with RW, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock and Greg Kinnear...no comments coz well, it was a TP movie.
After Annika left, I made Saima and Jigi watch 'Little Women' (1994) with Winona Ryder and Susan Sarandon. This was one of my favourite books as a child and I've read it umpteen times...Jo was one of my favourite characters and pretty much a childhood idol I guess. I had seen the movie the first time when our school took us for it and then again on TV, yet I was amazed when I could quote lines from the book/movie and remembered scenes so well....truly love the book...and so glad that both Saima and Jigi liked the movie!! :)
Today we went and paid up for another trip - to Luneberg...like for Wittenberg this is also organised by the IKUS. The trip includes a visit to the famous Christmas market in Luneberg and well sight-seeing and pub-hopping...cool eh? Its on 6th -Nicholaus Day...there's a legend behind that too. Nicholaus was like a herb-man(shaman type of guy) of ancient Germany. He is said to have roamed around with a huge sack giving people herbs and medicines and curing them. After his death children were told that if they were good Nicholaus would come and give them sweets...so on 6th Dec all children leave their shoes outside the doors for gifts and sweets. Very similar to Santa Claus and the stocking hanging..only that comes from Sweden.
Guess this is it for now....until tomm...:)
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