Donny - the only one missing!

Winter has taken its grip on Vienna this week with temperatures dropping to -8 degrees and even during the day not reaching positive territory. The only thing missing to have a perfect winter setting is the snow. Some people are quite happy about that as snow in Vienna is fun for something like 1 hour after it stops snowing as the salt that is poured on the roads in order to avoid icy surface turns the roads and pavements into alleys through grey heaps of snow or better said slush. We also prefer snow outside the city and don’t mind the situation as it is.

2 lanes, 20 pins and 10 dudes means a lot of fun

In order to get some activity the Bella Familia organised a bowling night on Thursday after work in the Brunswick Bowling Wien-Prater, very close to our home. Dude Pete, Chesus Maria and Sobchak Markus hit the lanes alongside Hunter Chris, Bella Isa, Rolandinho, Chesus (Gery) and Du (Mirko) as well as Thomas and Kerstin (whose nicknames we can’t remember) and rolled balls just like in the Coen brothers’ classic “The Big Lebowski”. Supported by little Valentin, Maria and Mirko’s 11,5 month year old son we tried to give our best, but it was quite obvious that we haven’t been bowling in quite a while looking at the inconsistent performance. The motivation of a plate of (really good) French Fries helped that all of us at least scored one strike in the 3 games we played and we also got Valentin hooked up to fast food already, so we can celebrate his birthday already together with Ronald McDonald. All of us have been winners that night, be it for the high score of almost 160 points, the biggest number of double 0s bowled or the highest speed of 34,6 km/h. It was very good fun and we decided to organize a night of ten-pin bowling more frequently going forward.

Kerstin & Markus