Monday, June 15, 2009

The heat was finally on again

While the month of May has been very generous with warm weather and sunshine the past few weeks were rather cool, overcast and wet. Also the long weekend started like that and so we had to bury our plans to go to the Stadionbad on Thursday but at least our plan of a barbeque in the evening with Mirko, Maria & Valentin as well as Stefan & Viki worked out after a short shower.

On Saturday morning though clouds were gone and the morning was all blue sky and so we did use our season-ticket and met with the Haemmerles in the Stadionbad. As if we were jinxed, as soon as we got there, clouds appeared and covered the sun for the next 1,5 hours. Little Valentin, used the time efficiently and trained his gigolo skills by “chatting up” several girls on their towels and managed to squeeze in between two of them within minutes! Once the clouds disappeared and the sun warmed us nicely he let off the girls and went for a swim with mom & dad. We finished the day off at the
Wiener Eislaufverein, where “Sand in the city” offers food, drinks & music as well as playground for children with beach-flair right in the heart of the city throughout summer.

A worn-out race car was the main atrraction for Valentin on the city beach

Sunday morning the weather was even better than the day before - temperatures reached more than 30 degrees - and we yet again ventured out to the Stadionbad and enjoyed together with the Haemmerles as well as Claudia & Oliver the summer sun. Valentin followed the same procedure as the day before and flirted with several female bathers and he was already known by some of the crowd from the day before! After 2 days in the sun we dropped to bed in the evening rather dead and Markus’ plan to watch the decisive Game 5 of the NBA Finals – the Los Angeles Lakers beat Orlando Magic in Florida 99-86 and crowned themselves for the 15th time NBA champion (Lakers coach Phil Jackson is now the only coach to win 10 championships – were scratched. The sun gives you lots of energy during the day, but it takes its toll in the evening. We are not complaining though at all about being tired for that reason!

Kerstin & Markus

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