Saturday, December 27, 2008

La grande bouffe - the day after

As expected and as every year the christmas days in Hoerbranz were full of laughter, joy, happiness and delicious & traditional food. Within three days we have had 5 large lunches/dinners (wienerle with potatoes & horseradish, beef-roulade with rice, boiled beef with vegetables and horderadish, crispy duck & chicken with bread- & potatoe dumplings & red cabbage and last but not least ham rolls with mayonnaise salad) split only by coffee and cake and cookies. On top of the great food we all got loads of presents and the best thing is that we got presents that we definitely wanted, thanks to the way we did our secret santa this year. All participants, based in Gran Canaria, Barcelona, Bregenz, Hoerbranz and Vienna have posted and updated their wishes in the weeks ahead of christmas.

Even though the snow is missing the temperatures are definitely wintry and thus Sandra, Flo and Markus are to a certain extent happy that they have added a few centimetres to their grease film over the past days as tomorrow they are participating in the
Altacher Silvesterlauf where Sandra will tackle the 6,3km race while Flo and Markus will do the 12,6km. The insulation provided by the additional weight is helpful, but at the same time over the whole distance we will have to carry the grease. As a consequence we will not care so much about the time, but rather the fun towards the year end.

Kerstin & Markus

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