Friday night, after having finished a tough week at work - Kerstin's clients got busy ahead of the Austrian elections & Markus trying to sail through the turbulent times at the stock markets - we got into our car and headed west: Flo, Kerstin's sister's boyfriend has called for celebrating his 30th birthday on saturday in Bregenz. We did not hesitate a second once we heard about the plan and were quite excited to be back in Kerstin's home country. Having caught the "movie-virus" in the past weeks, we decided to make a short video for Flo as contribution to our present - a weight-bench in order to keep fit. We won't win an Oscar for sure, but it was fun anyway to produce it seemed that also Flo liked it!
We also brought along a surprise for Heidi, Kerstin's Mom: In the quest to renovate the house - this summer she got a new kitchen and a few things in the living room have been upgraded - we decided to buy her a slim Panasonic Plasma TV (the same make as we and also Sandra/Flo have) instead of her large, old & heavy TV set. Upon arrival Friday night we replaced the old TV with the new shiny toy and it took quite a while on Saturday morning for her to realise, but once that happened the joy was big!
As for the party: Just imagine 31 people in a flat with 80sqm on a day when it was raining all day long with temperatures of 15 degrees. The nice terrace could not be used and we had a cosy night inside with loads of food (critical voices call it a "sickness" that in Vorarlberg there is always plenty of food availabe), plenty of prosecco, wine, Mohren and vodka. The evening was very nice and full of laughter, we saw many pictures and nice birthday-present-presentations including a revival of TV show "1, 2 oder 3" and a poem recited by Kerstin, Heidi and the Meierei (Renate & Werner). The PlayStation has also been used heavily for Karaoke singing and as far as we could judge, not many tunes were hit correctly. By the end of the night/beginning of the next day at 0445 most of the food was gone (= eaten) and also the majority of liquids have been liquidated. "Well done" to everyone!
Does this man look like 30?
On Sunday afternoon, having slept a few hours and helped cleaning up the mess in the flat, we are getting into our lion-car again and get on our way to Vienna where we prepare ourselves for what will most likely be a very busy week for both of us.
Kerstin & Markus
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