New Year Celebrations

The coming of the New Year (2007) was celebrated in Timisoara, very close to what I believe New Year celebrations should entail.

The temperatures were still hovering around the -5'C and we had tickets to an Operetta (The Bat) and then reservations to a restaurant from 10pm onwards.  I didn't bring many clothes with me, half my suitcase was filled with presents, and I was forbidden by Daci from wearing jeans.. thus my only option was to wear a dress.  This was the first time I attended an Operetta, in Romanian, and I liked.  Through the second and third acts I was trying to translate for Christine the jokes and the storyline, the role each person was playing in order for it make more sense. 

After the Operetta we walked to the restaurant and had our entree after, then headed back to the city centre to watch the fireworks display, walk back to the restaurant again, eat, dance and be merry.  At the restaurant each course was served approximately at an hourly interval.. by 5am the troops were tired and we asked for our dessert to come out early so we could head home.  The company, the dancing, the food, the restaurant, the recording of Nic dancing, and the early hours made it into a terrific New Year!

We arrived home, people brushed their teeth and got ready for bed.  I was the last one to head to the bathroom to brush my teeth (it just had to be so).  I was tempted not to and maybe I should have just gone to sleep.  I walk to the bathroom and flick on the light switch (which is outside the bathroom next to the door).  Fortunately for the location of the light switch because I could have been showered with glass.  The bulb blew, noise like a firework throughout the house, and the lighting on the entire upper level worked no more!  Sit on the stairs of the upper level watching poor Adi trying to fix it.. in the end we gave up, using a torch I started to clean the shards out of the bathroom.. they were everywhere, sink, bath tub, all over the floor, even near the door.  I can thank my lucky stars that the light switch was not inside the bathroom.