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Holiday

Holiday
Yeah yeah a holiday.
Well a family festivity for us.
This year one of the grandchildren of my grandmother (a niece of mine) is doing her Plechtige Communie I dont have a clue how to translate but its the thing Christians do when they are around 12. Getting big.
We have a big family (at least on my fathers site): 23 grandchildren.
(If you compare it with the other side 3 grandchildren- this one can be considered big)
And at least four times a year we gather up: new year, easter, 15 August, and Santa Claus. Sometimes more because of a wedding, a communion, birth of the next grandchild, or something else to have a party about.
Every time it is a big thing. Because it is not only the 23 grandchildren off course, no no, we have the parents (which means another 16 people), my grandparents, and since short the older grandchildren are allowed to bring their lover.
If everybody is there we have around 40-45 people. For whom there is food, drinks and presents.
I am always the big absent (although I am surely not the only one) and for some reasons I always appear to be abroad when these things happen.
So I really am obliged to go, when I am around.
As you hear me say this obliged you know it is not really my cup of tea. Earlier, when I was a kid, I used to love it, now it is different. I dont know why.
But yet, I have to admit, we are a family of talkers, and we always end up in big discussions that are rather funny. Nice uncles that love to have discussions on whatever.

I once took a family picture of the brothers and sisters of my dad. The one I gave to my grandparents is the one where everybody is looking in the lense, silent and smiling. The good one, though, is the one I took right before. Where everybody was acting as he/she is: my uncle directing the thing, another uncle laughing about him, my grand father getting nervous and my grandmother looking in the lense already. One uncle aside, and the sisters quarrelling together. My father and his other brother still in a discussion that started before the picture was taken.

Seeing my little brother (see little movie attached) I am only able to think: hell be an explainer too

Little movie (long loading + need quicktime to see...)