BBQ season opening

Hurray! First BBQ this year. While Tina sent me shopping for today's lunch I got an update for the shopping. So instead of just fish I also bought some meat (including the for some reason typical dutch Sate shashlik) and beer. Sophie and Emily shared their new table and we all enjoyed a beautiful evening in the sun on our balcony.

Vacation planning

We are still trying to plan our vacation. However, until now we couldn't decide on the direction. Either head north and go camping in Sweden (my favorite) or south and escape from it all into an isolated mountain hut on a nice Alm in Austria. We will see what comes up maybe somebody wants to join for on of the activities -- or we come up with something completely new.

And now for something completely different.

Long time no see

One last try to post more regular. Lets see if this replaces FB one day although I doubt it.

Emily had the chickenpocks and since yesterday it is Sophies turn. Not too many other things have happened recently. A few skiing trips to Austria. A trip to Regensburg to visit the DPG (for those who care ;-) and a short visit to Leoben to celebrate 76 semesters together with Erik and Miro.

lets hope the next post will appear soon :-)

All sick

We are all sick. Emily and Sophie started on the weekend, Tina followed and one will see when it fully hits me.

Sophie got an infection of the middle ear and is really poor. However, they all will need to be healthy again until Thursday when Nonna and Opa are coming.

We also bought our tickets for Christmas. The prices are ridiculously low. Emily's ticket to Austria including everything is 1€. The one for Sophie 28€ and the ones for Tina and myself 29€. The same for the return flight with the only difference that then Emily will have to pay 28€ too.

For those interested this means we will be in Austria (Baden, most likely) from 20.12.2009 (21.12. for me) until 4.1.2010. We hope to go to Leoben and spend a few days in Altaussee as well to see some mountains.

Gregor

Weekend trip and how we got LOST

We are LOST. Lat time we visited Shabnam and Walter they lured us into watching LOST, as a result we are now LOST. Thanks Shabnam and Walter :-)

Nevertheless, we managed to get away from the TV and went to Den Haag last weekend. We only made it to the beach at Scheveningen, but Sophie and Emily really liked it. They had a lot of fun in the sand and chasing waves. After everybody got wet we went to meet the Austrians Abroad. They had a party in a bowling center. It was nice and Sophie danced a lot to the music played by the Belgian band called Gipfelfreunde (?!?). I guess there will be images but I have to get them from Tina first.

Loser Gipfelbuch

Einst Sprach der Loser sehr galant
zur Nachbarin der Trisselwand
Ach kommen sie doch bitte,
heute Nacht in meine Hütte!
Die Trisselwand nicht ganz aus Stein
sie sagt nicht ja, sie sagt nicht nein,
sie färbt sich langsam rosa
und flüstert leis: "Du, Loser!"

Gefunden 2008 im Loser Gipfelbuch.

Progress

We are making progress. Nearly all the boxes are gone from the flat and Tina and Sophie are close to opening their bottles of champagne to celebrate this. Today Sophie went on here first bicycle tour. Emily got a free ride on my bike but Sophie used her own bike to go to the Viermarken farm and visit the pony's on the way. 3km for her first tour -- not to bad.

Other things that have happened include a trip to Austria to not forget what mountains look like and how thin air feels. We went to Stubaital for a few days. We made two tours. The one brought us to the Senn Joch Hütte from the end station of Schlick2000. While the other one nearly brought us to the Franz Senn Hütte, but we stopped already at the Alpeineralm. In both cases Sophie got a ride their sleeping, but walked back both times (40 min and 1.5 hours).

Pictures will follow as soon I get hold of them, hopefully together with some older images that still need to be transfered from the old homepage.