新年快樂! ヾ(＠⌒ー⌒＠)ノ

Happy lunar new year everyone!

Yesterday my husband and I watched the Chinese new year's gala on CCTV, and on Saturday we made dumplings. ♪ I really enjoyed the new year's gala, especially the songs from Faye Wong and Leehom Wang!

I have no internet at tome right now, it really sucks... I hope I can blog again soon!

Baibai!

Our wedding in China ♡

Xin and I were in Taiyuan for about 3 weeks to visit his family and celebrate our wedding in his hometown.

We got married in Germany before, but we decided to have another wedding in China later, so his family can be there, too.

Our Chinese wedding was on December 31th 2011.

In the morning we got dressed. My mother-in-law and some other women from Xin's family helped me to put on my white wedding dress. When I was finished, Xin tried to open the door to take me outside, but the women wouldn't let him in and he had to beg for them to let him open the door. This is a Chinese tradition, which means that the women of my family (my family wasn't there, so his mom and aunt etc. did it) don't want him to take me away from them.

After he got in, he got on his knees in front of me and asked if I would come with him. I said yes and we walked out happily, where some people threw confetti for us.

Then someone drove us to the restaurant, which they put a huge inflatable archway in front of with our names on it. They also put up a big poster of Xin and me inside of the restaurant.

Xin and I had to wait in the hall to greet our 65 guests, chat with them and take photos.

After everyone was there, I had to changed my outfit to a red dress for eating.
Then we drank and ate with the guests.

Some of them even prepared a little game for Xin and me:
They held an apple on a thread and we both had to bite it with the hands on our back, so when we failed to bite it we would accidently kiss each other...

It was a beautiful wedding and I felt really happy that Xins family accepts me and treats me super nice!


Our wedding photos were taken by VSheying photography, who are specialized on K-dorama-inspired photo shoots. The photos turned out really beautiful! Here are some of my favourites:

I love the photos! And Xin looks so handsome he is totally stealing my thunder!

I want to lose weigh fast so we are equally pretty haha.

Now it kinda feels more like we are really officially married... do you understand what I mean?

Let's be happy together forever.

From Berlin to Beijing

I just wanted to let you know that I'm going to be in China for two weeks now!

My husband and me are taking the plane from Berlin to Beijing today. You probably know you can't use sites like Blogspot, Twitter or Facebook in China, so most likely you won't hear from me for a while. :(

I will only try to post on this site in German while I'm there: http://blog.sina.com.cn/juliazaizg

My husband and I are planning to celebrate our wedding a second time with his family in China on 31th December, which is also the day when we became a couple and, one year later, got engaged. So yeah, it's really nice to also get married on this special day. :)

Our wedding is also the reason why I went to the hair salon yesterday to get a new hair color.

If you follow my blog you might know that my hair first was really blonde and then I dyed it dark brown... but for my wedding pictures I wanted to have a nice light caramel shade.

So I decided to get my hair done and I'm really surprised how great it turned out!

It is really worth to spend more money on dying your hair instead of using many cheap drugstore products, which totally damaged my hair. -_- *lesson learned*

Ok I need to go now... we're driving to Berlin now to catch our plane at 19.45... see you in two weeks! I promise to make a blog post about China when I'm back! (○´∀`) ♥♥♥ 

Berlin

Yesterday my husband and I were in Berlin to go shopping and eating in a restaurantー♪

When we arrived in Berlin we saw the christmas market and Berlin's infamous christmas tree, which is made of garbage...

Some christmas decorations 

Disney christmas decoration! ヽ(^◇^*)/ 

Entry hall of "Ka De We" shopping mall.

Then we finally went to the Chinese restaurant!

 We drank Chrysanthemum tea, my favourite tea ever!

 Taro rolls and jiaozi in chili oil. Both were so yummy! I love jiaozi but it was my first time to try the taro rolls and they so good! Outside they are crispy and inside they have a soft, sweet filling.

This is the filling of the taro rolls. It's purple and kinda tastes like bean paste, very sweet!

 Shao Mai

 This is meat with sticky sweet sauce, but the ourside is very crispy!

 Egg tarts! I love them so much! ヽ(*´∀｀)ﾉ They have a sweet hot egg cream inside, so yummy!

Rice and eggplant.

After finishing our meal we went shopping again. It became dark very early.

And here are the two things I found:

 A bleack warm "Berlin" scarf.

And a black/white sweater from Tommy Hilfiger. It's great fpr cold weather and super comfortable!

We wanted to eat at KFC in the eveing but we were too full from the Chinese food. -_-

By the way, I finally bought my first alpaca plushies online! It's a set with three "baby alpacas" which are 10cm small. They are light pink, beige and white. I am so looking forward o getting them! Here is a picture:

ヽ(　　´　　∇　　｀　　)ノ

But I still hope I will have a big one later!

Two little purchases and UFO-Catcher

Today at school my friend and I drank mulled wine, because they sell it right next to our school. :D

It wasn't that bad because we only had 2 lessons and we usually never do this. 

After school I went to the city to buy a surprise for my beloved guinea pigs:

It's a toy, a gnawing stone and some snacks. ♥

After that, I went to a stationary shop and bought two black fineliners. I want to draw more often and I need these to draw the black outlines after making a sketch.

I walked past the UFO catchers on the christmas market and noticed they had Doraemon plushies! I never played UFO catcher before, but this time I wanted to give it a try. 

And I really won!

This made me so happy! I went home with a smile on my face, because winning this plushy made me so proud. :D

In the evening my hubby and I went grocery shopping and now we are playing Skyward Sword again, like we always do. ^-^

Finally got money today

After months of waiting I finally got my money today!

So my friend and I went shopping and to the christmas market together~

I bought this cute bracelet at Bijou Brigitte because I loved the different pendants. The big round one is actually a locket, so you can put a photo of your dear in it.

This bag is from MANGO. It was just time for a new hand bag!

In the evening my husband and me were eating at a Chinese restaurant.

Now we are playing The Legend of Zelda - Skyward Sword together.

See you next time, bai bai!

Dolly Wink eyelash case

Got my eyelash case today! ♥