O come let us adore Him

Happy Christmas lovely people.
Not sure what you're doing or how you're celebrating this season but I want to go back to where it all started and be like the shepherds - surprised by the heavenly hosts and curious to run and see the new born Saviour. So thankful for Jesus, who He is and what He's done.
Sometimes On a daily basis I wish we would live in a less materialistic world and Christmas wouldn't always boil down to crazy shopping and stressed out people.
Hope that this year will be one to remember, filled with peace and you're friends and family xx

cycling to Bratislava

Usually before I head out of the country, I like to assemble all my favourite people. We always go out for drinks, which is lovely but this time I wanted to break with tradition and do something completely different.
I sent out an email if anyone was up for some bicycle action - a trip to Bratislava along the Danube river. I had talked to Ian at some point during the summer about it and how much fun this could be and he was the first to reply haha Most people weren't sure about it but in the end everyone was keen and for some reason Sami was the one most excited about it haha
Ten of us set out for the trip and only one made it. Kidding! We all made it and it felt like a big family day out. I think that during the entire journey everyone got to cycle with someone else, chatting as they were riding along. We were pushing those pedals, picnicked somewhere in the national park, ate cake and had a laugh.

 

  

 

Some call us crazy but those 75km were totally worth it. I guess everyone was very happy to take the train back though :) Thanks for coming out to play everyone. Next year we'll make it to Budapest haha Love you all x

Funny thing we found out later: the day of our trip was World Car Free Day - couldn't have planned that one better!

the wedding of Sarah & Kaleb

A friend of mine recently accused me of attending too many weddings. Not my fault when everyone around me is getting hitched haha

For the finale of my little road trip I went to a place near Stuttgart to reunite with a few of my college girls and celebrate the marriage of Sarah and Kaleb. 

Sarah, being the sweet person she is, offered her apartment to us and Nela and I took that opportunity to come a day early to hang out and catch up. We had dinner at a restaurant where the waitress messed up our drink orders (we told her and another waiter brought the exact same drink out again) and forgot all about our entrees haha. Has anyone seen the Happy Endings episode with the waiter who doesn't write anything down? It was exactly like that :)  Never mind, we had a great time and were excited for the next day.

It was a beautiful wedding and we partied till the early hours. Woop woop!

These people hold a very special place in my heart. The last time we were all together in one place was for Rob & Dee's wedding, evidence here. Every time I see them it is refreshing and the most normal thing to all be together and we can't stop chatting (which happens when there are girls involved).

So much love was in the air...

 

Congratulations Sarah & Kaleb, this will be one fantastic journey for you guys. 

Next reunion in Berlin! 

any excuse to celebrate

Two years ago when I moved back to Austria I moved in with my lovely friends R&M. Around the same time they tore down their garden hut to make room for a cosy arbour. Last year they finally started building and the structure received finishing touches this summer. Now all that's missing is vine to grow, form a roof and bring shade on hot summer days to come.
To thank all helpers and to celebrate that it is finally done, they invited us for a feast...

We ended the night with a fire in the well known ton... so ghetto, but fun :)
Thanks lovely friends for having us, wish everyone could encounter their hospitality at some point in their lives. 

a wedding to kick off summer

My lovely physio therapist tied the knot early this month. It's not like she is just anybody but my sister in law's best friend and maid of honour, plus the groom was my brother's best man, so they're basically family :) It was a lovely wedding, a gorgeous garden setting and hot hot heat.

only picture I got of the happy couple and you can't even properly see the groom haha

What follows is a bit of sibling nonsense, as we thought it'd be nice to have a new version of this photo... it's been almost a year after all. Our friend Mike took the camera and snapped about 15 photos, I never got the info that we were not doing silly faces! Anyway here goes. Happy days x

Kasnocken feast to celebrate two besties

Right we've had one, two, three, four and five 30th celebrations and a few others, not documented on here and another one was added last weekend. A double take if you want.
Lisl and Drew were late in celebrating their birthdays but it was all the more fun to celebrate together. Up on Gaisberg at a restaurant famous for their Kasnocken we celebrated two of the best people this world has to offer.

Kasnocken galore

2/3 of team Spleen

birthday boy

birthday girl with bump yay

an English boy explaining Eminem's work hahaha surreal!

Who wouldn't want to have their best friends around for a night. Nice to catch up with everyone and feast on those Kasnocken. If you've never had them, sorry but you have to come to Austria for that one. 

This last picture is too funny not too share. Anybody ever thought what would have happened to Jesus if it would have been windy at the crucifixion??? Well here you have it. Nearly peed ourselves looking at that. Thing is, it's put up high in the corner so if Lisl wouldn't have noticed and told us, no-one would have known :)