Meat, bones and stairs

Since our return from Spain we have settled again at home after several rounds of washing, re-filling our fridge and getting into the Viennese rhythm. On Sunday we met with Markus uncle Peter and his partner Hedi, Markus cousin Peter jr. and Viki & Stefan in the nearby Schweizerhaus, a beer garden which is an institution in the Prater and famous for its Stelze - a rear pork knuckle. As to our all surprise the weather was very nice warm and sunny we had a table outside which allowed us to enjoy the real Schweizerhaus atmosphere. For Jakob this meant loads of broken stones to play with, many people to greet and a cool playground ion the middle of the beergarden. What it also meant was a new experience. After having eaten together with Kerstin half a grilled chicken he surprised us all when he tried the real stuff and really liked to chew on the pork knuckle which was half as large as himself. There is no doubt anymore that our junior is able to eat EVERYTHING.

No worries: Its a pork knuckle and not a human bone!

After the "power lunch" on Sunday Jakob did make another leap in his development of skills on Monday when not only he for the first time walked (on all four though) up the whole flight of stairs in our flat, but he also for the made his way down without holding on to neither Markus nor Kerstin but only by holding on to the handrail or moving down backwards. Once the new skills were learned we spent a wonderful afternoon in the zoo visiting the tigers, lions, seals and elephants, including the elephant calf Tuluba and enjoying the sunshine and nice late summer weather. When we came back home the first thing our sunshine did was to train his new skills over and over again and thus making us move up and down a lot as well.