Tuesday, August 3, 2010

On the bike

Sunday evening the weather turned wet and cold again and during the whole night lightning turned the darkness for several seconds into day followed by thunders and lots of rain. Come Monday morning the rain was over and it looked like a beautiful day with bearable temperatures. After the exhausting day in the mountains we did not do much though on Monday but only drove to Dornbirn to do some shopping in the Messepark after lunchtime.

When we came to Vorarlberg last week one of the bulkiest pieces of luggage was Jakob's Hamax bicycle seat which we took over from our friend Sandra since Rosemarie does not need it anymore. Given it took away so much space and given one can use this seat for several years we decided to buy a second one for our vacations in the Laendle so we don't need to transport it all the time back and forth.

A sceptical look as Markus stopped after only a few minutes

Once back from the Messepark with the new seat Markus immediately got on the case to mount it to Kerstin's bike. Afterwards we tried to convince Jakob to test his new helmet - an absolute must when traveling by bike - and that proved more difficult than we thought. It very much looked like he is scared of the large thing being put on his head. As we all got a bit inpatient, we decided to simply jump into the cold water (literally) with Jakob and put him into his new seat. the light rain that started did not disturb the joy and interestingly, once our junior sat in his seat he had no problem whatsoever with the helmet. The short round Markus was cycling with the small boy in his back showed though that - as expected - Jakob likes the bicycle a lot and thus we expect to cycle to Bregenz in the next few days - once the weather allows.

Jakob, Kerstin & Markus

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