We've moved

We really have. Really far away from Vienna. We're home in Calgary, Canada now! Life is less of a vacation, but fun things still happen and we still like to remember them and document them. You can continue to follow us over here!

Random Monday Moments

We woke up late today and had nothing planned to do. We also ran out of internet on the weekend, so we had nothing to entertain ourselves, until we went out to Telering to fix that. Here is how we occupied ourselves today:
This was actually the best part about the day, and I can't believe it hasn't happened sooner. We went through the piles of paper and things that have been in this little cabinet since we moved it. It turned out to be a whole bunch of stuff from the guy who used to live there. Some personal things too, like cards and letters and notes to himself and stuff. This guy is apparently crazy and took off on our land lord without paying his rent or bringing any of his stuff. So naturally we read all of them, and had some good laughs while we did. It was kind of fun.

The was the lovely view from the second floor staircase window of our apartment building today.

We went to the McDonad's by our house to steal the internet and catch up on Glee shows. Really funny pop up on our screen. We laughed hard.

We ran into this cool store that sells all juggling and circusy stuff, and so many fun toys.

Don't know if you knew this: Eric can ride a unicycle.

He can juggle too.

He also loves growing a mustache. I would have let him grow one in support of Prostate Cancer Research, but he hasn't mentioned it once during Movember. Which is funny because every time he eats a tomato he mentions how good it is to prevent prostate cancer.

Silly car we saw. I feel like it has a personality attached to it, like in the movie Cars. He's probably old and German and cranky.

Eric's school set up like 6 really pretty Christmas trees out front.

What a random day. We liked it though. It was fun for Eric to have a day off school and us have nothing planned for it. We just hung out together.

Planning Redemption Session

Well after a review of yesterday, Katherine and I expressing some feelings, giving some apologies and then attempted to plan again. Planning was a success! What a relief from yesterday. I’m excited for all of the things that we’ll go see. We’re going to Cover from Paris to Rome, and Bled to Nice.

We visited a flea market after our planning feat. The sight was a grid of divided shambles. Little pots of sellers with his or her items ranging from treasures scrimmaged from a land fill, to used hand-stitched leather bags and homemade broaches. We walked by large piles of clothes, unorganized, unsorted, piled to a peak. Simply, it was like the biggest yard sale I’ve seen, with near one hundred participants who had rummaged up what they could, from who knows where, trying to make a Euro. Between the heat and among the minority of non-smokers, Katherine and I didn’t linger very long. I found nothing to arouse my bill fold, but the sight itself was priceless.

For dinner I ate noodles and Katheine had a donair style rap. We both have had successes with these two meals, but this time only Katherine was a winner. My noodles, usually thick and very oriental, were replaced with cheap spaghetti noodles. Never again will I go to that stand without fighting the urge to burn it down.

Tonight was the first session of conference. It started at 6 and went to 8. We got there at 10 to 8. What happened? Well, the tram that we needed to get to the chapel was broken or something and never came. Later we heard something about a huge marijuana party on the tram track. What a perfect place to party. We weren't the only ones not too thrilled to be down a tram. It seemed to put out crowds of people that were waiting just like us. Before knowing about the bong fest up the line, we ventured down the line by subway to see if we would be able to catch a tram closer to the church. Still no luck.

The Lord promises us his grace after all we can do; so Katherine and I rented bikes setting out to peddle our way to hear from the mouth of our prophet. Vienna has stations around the city where you can rent bikes and then return them to the next station, and the first hour is free. K: I haven't riden a bike in probably ten years, and you can see by my outfit of the day that I was just thrilled about this plan. It was an adventure though and it was fun. 

It was an adventure, and though we arrived with only ten minutes remaining, we made it. Victory! The last ten minutes we were pleasured with the remarks of President Uchtdorf’s message—“You matter to Him”. It was worth all the effort just to hear what we did.