A glorious weekend

We have started Jakob’s fourth month on this planet with a pretty busy weekend as on Saturday morning we decided to do some long overdue shopping. As the day started early anyway we could take our time and still headed off pretty early towards IKEA in the north of Vienna. It was the first visit to the Swedish furniture discounter but he missed it all the way as he slept all the time and missed the whole experience. Once finished we even forgot to pick up the obligatory cheap Frankfurter combo (a pair of Frankfurter + a bread roll + a drink with endless re-fill) but changed over to BabyOne a nearby store for general baby stuff and outfit where we bought some more stuff for our little one. This well assorted shop will most likely become one of our favourites in the coming months/years. Not only because it is easily reachable. In the afternoon, we ventured out for a stroll on Landstrasser Hauptstrasse where we finalized the weekend shopping food and vegetables.

It seems everyone tried to be outdoors on Sunday! Even the monkeys.

Sunday morning presented itself in the most beautiful way with sunshine and mild temperatures and so the decision was easily taken over breakfast to visit the zoo in Schoenbrunn again. The three of us have not been there yet together and we could not imagine a better day for this first family trip. Not only did the sun turn Vienna into a real golden autumn but also we have never seen the animals in the zoo so active and outgoing. While the elephants were trumpeting along celebrating a real concert all the giraffes enjoyed themselves outdoor enclosure, the white-hand gibbons played catch-me-if-u-can with each other outside and even the rather slow Orang-Utans were sunbathing on the trees in the fresh air. Jakob was pretty fascinated by the busy zoo, the many children and maybe also by some animals, even though we did not have the impression he was watching them a lot. But for sure the time will come when he will laugh just the way we did today when he sees the animals playing and enjoying themselves so much.

On our way out we realised how lucky we were as the queue at the entrance was pretty long and for sure the afternoon was extremely crowded in front of the enclosures. Yet again we realised how good it is to get up early in the morning. One definitely has more of the day.

Jakob, Kerstin & Markus