…Thankfully it’s just temporarily.

On Friday, February the 28th, my Fiancé and I met in the afternoon at the train station in Bad Pyrmont.
That day we went together to Detmold, since weeks ago, while looking for our wedding bands, we had met a jeweler whose handwork and excellent knowledge of the subject, had fascinated us. That friday we went back to order our wedding bands. They measured our fingers, took note of what we want written on them and so on. It was a very exciting moment!

After that, and since I was a bit hungry, we headed to a Restaurant/cafe across the street. We had been there before and we love their Flammkuchen. I ordered one to share with my SO, because in a few hours we were meeting his parents for a goodbye dinner at their house in Blomberg. I of course also ordered an Apfelschorle, one of my favorite beverages in Germany.


Flammkuchen at Outback cafe/restaurant in Detmold


Apfelschorle

After eating, we walked around Detmold, trying to find some few presents I was still missing. I wanted to get my Dad the new Germany’s soccer jersey. We didn’t find it in the downtown area, so we drove a little bit further. There we had better luck. I found the jersey and ended up buying a typical beer from that region, which had won the “beer of the year” prize, 2013 version. Both the soccer jersey and the beer for my dad.

Around 5pm we headed to his parents house in Blomberg, which is about 15 mins from where we were. We arrived and there they were, always with a beautiful smile on their faces, happy to see us and with a warm welcome for us. I love them! We sat in the living room and were talking about the wedding, they showed us their plans, I told them how frustrated I was because we had not found our wedding venue and so on. All of a sudden they handed me an early easter egg! Aren’t they the sweetest? The egg is so beautiful both inside and outside. It was filled with different sweets and chocolates, most of them with Marzipan inside, because my SO’s parents know I love marzipan. It was such a nice surprise.


Isn’t it beautiful? Such eggs are very typical in Germany, around easter time.


Beautiful and lecker!

Later we had dinner all together, kept talking and sharing stories and plans. When we finished, my SO’s mother took me to her room and showed me the dress she bought for our wedding. Can you tell they are very excited about it? The dress is so beautiful. She actually bought two dresses and both are gorgeous. :-) :-)

The goodbye was not so sad. They hugged me tight and wished me so many wonderful things. I left with the promise that we will stay in touch via email and Skype, if possible. We will see each other soon.

I said goodbye to my SO's family, to new "friends", but the hardest of all was, hands down without a doubt, when I said goodbye to my fiancé at the airport.

Last days together were hard. I cried every now and then. I didn’t want to leave, even if I knew we will be together soon, saying goodbye to your loved ones never gets easy, it doesn’t matter how often you do it.

Most of my stuff were already packed: One huge suitcase with the exact 23Kg I was allowed to have on my checked bag, one "small" carry on and a backpack. On saturday we woke up and did our normal weekends morning routine: Breakfast together and then groceries shopping. That day we bought less stuff, because everything was going to be just for one, as I was leaving on Monday and on Sunday morning we were driving to the Netherlands, because my flight back was from Schipol.

We went to Hameln’s Innenstadt, walked around and had lunch at the Pfannekuchen Restaurant. Which if you ever go to Hameln, I recommend you to visit this place. The food is delicious and the place itself is so cool: It’s one of the oldest houses in Hameln -built in 1620- . The decoration, furniture and everything inside the house is kept as it was in the époque. I didn’t take that many pictures any of the times I was there because it is always full and I am a little bit shy to take pictures when there are so many people around.


From outside


Waiting for yummy food

Back home we cuddled, joked around, watched movies. We basically were enjoying our last hours together.

Sunday came and we woke up quite early. Got ready, had breakfast, I talked to his parents for a very last time and we left to the Netherlands. It was a beautiful, sunny Sunday. Spring was definitely in the air! The drive was easy, not traffic jams and we arrived in time. We stayed at the HolidayInn in Hoofddorp. Which is about 15 minutes from Schipol’s airport.

The hotel itself was OK. the bed was horrible -way too soft- and that night we missed our super comfortable and huge bed. Breakfast was included, but it was “naja”. We walked around Hoofddorp, hoping to find cool places to take pictures. But we didn’t find anything, other than houses/apartment buildings, closed stores and a few restaurants. We had dinner at a Restaurant that serves spanish food, but is called “La Cubanita” and where the waitress don’t speak spanish… even if the menu is written in dutch and spanish. It was funny though. We communicated with them in english.

Monday came, oh no! Just few hours were left. My heart was feeling so small, I tried hard to not cry and the boyfriend kept telling me to look forward, that everything was going to be alright.

We had some issues finding the way to the airport. Our GPS is not up to date, it kept crashing and the construction areas around didn’t make it any easier. After some minutes we found it, parked and on we went. I was flying with KLM. I checked and dropped my bag – first time I did it with a machine- so I prayed I had done everything correctly and that my bag don’t get lost. Most of the things inside of it, were presents and stuff I bought for the wedding.

There were still some hours left. So we hung up, drank coffee, took silly pictures, talked, laughed…. until it was time to leave. I cried a lot, he hugged me and tried to make me feel better, even when he was also dying inside. It was so hard. 5+ months until we see each other again… sigh! I started to miss him from the moment we said goodbye.