Finally summer has arrived!

So far late spring has presented itself rather unfriendly with cold temperatures and rain (luckily not as torrential as in Poland or Hungary where the country is still partially flooded) and doubts about a warm and nice early summer already appeared. At the end of last week though summer finally broke and temperatures rose sharply towards the mid-twenties and the sun managed to sooth our skins. Having built up a large sun-deficit over the past weeks we tried to soak up as much of it as possible and spent the majority of our weekend on the roof terrace. On Saturday we started the day with breakfast together with our guests, Kerstin’s former schoolmate Monika and her boyfriend Stefan who visited Vienna for the long weekend. As it was not only sunny but also the wind was very calm Jakob could basically spent most of the afternoon without a diaper on our terrace lawn. He quite obviously enjoyed his freedom, practiced his walking skills and explored everything. Late afternoon Evi and Christoph stopped by and we decided to heat the barbecue and have dinner together alongside one or the other Aperol Sprizz.

Playing on the terrace was fun. Especially without any diaper!

For Sunday we have had planned for a while already that Anna, Lini and Peter would come and visit us and given the summer weather we quite obviously spent the day again to a large extent on the terrace. Sunshine, temperatures of close to 30 degrees and a breeze made a perfect setting for chilling, our juniors did play with each other and we had drinks and late afternoon again a delicious barbecue and for desert we had yummy cheesecake which Peter has prepared. In the evening we paid tribute to the two days in the sun and fell into bed quite early. While Markus had to return to work on Monday Jakob and Kerstin could for the first time use our season ticket in the Stadionbad. Even though Jakob loves the baby-swimming, he was a bit sceptical about going into the baby-pool but the two had lots of fun in the shade of the trees. We are optimistic to spend some more time going forward in the Stadionbad as the weather forecast says: Summer will stay with us for a while now.

Jakob, Kerstin & Markus