Photos

Here a link to some photos taken last weekend at the orienteering (taken by Edith)! Thanks a lot Edith - they are great as usual!

Orienteering Weekend

A couple of weeks ago, we decided to go to another orienteering weekend and find out how unfit we really are. We chose the Salzburg Championships as they were held in a particular beautiful part of Austria. The start-/finish-area of the relay and individual race was situated almost half way up Austria highest mountain (Großglockner) at about 1.400m above sea. As you can imagine that involved lots and lots of climb in 2 days of 0rienteering. But the scenery and the weather made up for it and we had a wonderful time. Richard was very proud to become 2nd in the relay (the main category - he was lucky as a whole lot of teams got disqualified). Edith and I were also 2nd behind the top-team consisting of an ex-worldchampion (and now mummy of a 2 year old) and another unfit orienteering mum. I like to mention the ex-world champion because it makes our result look much better ...Even though we had to climb up a ski slope at the individual race it was great fun and demanding orienteering.
The only thing that got me worried on the weekend was that Hanna refused to do the kids string course ... :-)

Have a great week!
Christine

Summer 2009

The last 8 weeks just flew past. Here you can find a few impressions.

The highlights of this summer were definitely the visit of Michael and Lisa in August, although 3/4 of the family were lying sick in bed on one day or the other during their stay.
And of course the visit of Claire, Michelle and Matthew. It was great to meet our nephew (4 months old now) and catch up with Claire and Michelle.Exciting for us was also Hanna's start in Kindergarten last Monday. She loves it, especially as she already knows lots of other children there.

It is very obvious that autumn is coming, besides the fact that the last few days have been rainy, the trees are changing their leaves' colour and start to loose them. I love this time of the year and also look forward to the new school year.

Have a great day!
Christine