Back to "reality"

After a long wedding party and us being the last ones to leave the location we were pretty dead on Saturday and showed up to the brunch at Heurigen Wechtitsch-Zuser only at 1230, 1,5 hours after the rest of the crowd. We kept the tone rather low, had some grape-juice and coffee and for the afternoon we decided to lead some of teh Bella Familia members to the Kalachakra Kalapa Center above the restaurant where we had dinner at on Thursday night. As the way was hard to find and we were the only ones who have been there before, we volunteered as leaders, even though we were dead-beat. What we were not aware of was, that from Gasthof Paulitsch it was another 10 minutes steep and narrow roads up, as the center was on the very top of the hill. The center itself was closed for a retreat, and so we only could walk up to the Stupa (Mirko carrying Valentin + the pushchair!!, Gery only carrying Emma). The beautiful Stupa was in combination with the view we had from up there really impressive, but unfortunately we had no camera - so no pictures.

Bella Familia (ex wedding couple) at the wedding party

Given it has been raining again and the low temperatures at these heights we made our way back to the hotel rather soon, where we hade a short rest before we headed for dinner at Gasthaus Stöcklpeter with a nice view of the castle Deutschlandsberg where we had typical Styrian food: Backhendl (baked chicken). As most of the crowd was rather tired we called it a day rather early and went to bed at 2200.

For Sunday we decided to head back home right after breakfast as we had 2 weeks of holidays behind us and for sure a lot of things to sort at home, tons of clothes to clean and wanted to start work in a relaxed way. This turned out to be the very right thing to do! Traffic on the way home was good and when we arrived at home in our new flat at first all seemed ok. A bit warm inside, but ok. After a while only Markus found out that the heater was not working and the reason was detected soon: our neighbours haven been installed the gas meter but the technician has cut makeshift-gas supply. That means: no warm water! Luckily its summer and not too bad, but stress was back with us. Now guess, what Markus was trying to sort out all Monday: Installation of a gas meter and re-connection to the network. Great! A solution is on the horizon, but it wont be solved today!

Apart from this "gas-suprise" we were fine though, managed to clean the majority of our clothes, went for a run, worked on a few issues for the coming weeks and relaxed a last time before heading back into what most people call the real world: work. As always, the first day back is rather slow from our side, but that will for sure change.

Blog-feeds will be reduced now that we are back at work, but stay tuned for more input, especially as stage three of the wedding tri-athlon is not far away: the wedding of the Goldengnu - Mary and Mirko on September 6th!

Kerstin & Markus