Singing and driving home for Christmas

Usually we celebrate with Markus' family the weekend before Christmas with the world's best Schweinsbraten which his mum is famous for. This year though we had to change plans and therefore we met on Tuesday afternoon in our flat and had a nice evening together in Vienna. We left our kitchen partially to Stefan who prepared meat, fried noodles and vegetables and Kerstin prepared two trouts in the oven with lemon, tomatoes and thyme. Once all dishes were ready we were convinced that we would never be able to eat it all, but the seven of us - mum & dad, Stefan & Viki, Ines, Kerstin and Markus went all the way with the main course and also left hardly anything of the desert prepared by Ines, a yummy mascarpone cream with rapsberries. After dinner a flood of presents for Jakob swamped the place and we are seriously thinking about limitations to the number of presents for our little one for the coming years!

No way we could offer someone a ride

As Markus and his dad packed the car to a large extent Tuesday night before and after dinner it was relatively easy to leave early morning for our Christmas vacation in Vorarlberg. At 6.20 we set off with a car that was packed to the roof with outfit for three weeks for Kerstin & Jakob, some Christmas presents and lots of other stuff which we better use at least once to justify the effort of finding a place in the car. Markus even had a co-driver consisting of jackets, paper and plastic bags. Jakob was awake half the journey and wanted permanently to get out of his Maxi-Cosi, which obviously is a no-go while driving. In order to calm him down Kerstin was singing a lot of songs to him, he was singing back his song and one time Chris Rea was singing to the three of us. Driving home for Christmas. Thanks to good traffic all the way we hit the ground at 1200 in the most western part of Austria and are now ready for our first Christmas as a family.

Jakob, Kerstin & Markus