too much headache for sculpture park, or for anything (50/365c)

ok, i stop blaming the champagne. i blame the migraine genes. out cold today. everyone else went to the sculpture part (my idea! i wanted to go!) except centa and mama who went on a nearly all day wine tasting tour with centa's english conference. i rested and tried to arrange some more sting music...

which i'd been there.....

musicians spend their holidays working (49/365c)

national holiday today, and thus i spent from 8 in the morning till 8pm at rehearsals with salonorchester for sarajevo. it was fun but exhausting. i took headshots for the orchestra and they took one for me....

when you put the camera into someone's hands.
the ivy is nice and sharp.

barbara and i went out to see a balkan band and dance. my head hurt (i blame the bottle of Veuve Clicquot, of which i had a quarter glass).....

may time pass quicker! (48/365c)

mama waxed and cleaned the vorhaus all morning and noah headed out on his way to his next stop on his european backpacking trip - most of his time here it was raining, except for the perfect climbing weather on his first day.

arrived super late to the opera - now i know what happens, they write out a ticket for you.

it rained all day, barbara and i practiced for sarajevo, and i forgot to go meet the lady with the oboe for duets - i have wanted to meet up with her for a while, but my head was elsewhere.

i took photos for chorus, and took ronja and felix to the museum afterwards
watched half of tosca and walked home with theodore and henry.
we stopped at the spar and i got confused about coffee at spar coming back with theodore and henry. 2 were on sale for the price of 1, but i got 2 different ones by accident, so i had to pay more than twice what i was expecting. nearly 40euros for 2 kilograms of coffee instead of 12 euros for 2 kilograms. The guy at the checkout couldn't understand what my problem was, and the shop was already closing, but i ran back and brought 2 more.

some interesting wishing from the past:
Gesundheit verlaengere Dein Leben
Und Freude verkuerze die Zeit.

"May health lengthen your Life
and Joy shorten time."

we found my mom on the walk home.
the kids were gloriously color-coded

an action-packed weekday (47/365c)

day started with a pretty terrible parent teacher conference where we scheduled a day for felix to say goodbye to kindergarten for the last time. the process has been so long and tedious for us. i was so emotionally exhausted, and it was only half an hour!

completely easy and happy
fresh herbs he cut himself
and an umbrella from nature

we celebrated henry's birthday with his friends, and i was so grateful that mama made the cake for him. she wrote "henry" on it in buttercream, and it was two huge layers and henry was overjoyed.

Henry with friends

they read a theater play "kasperl soll geburtstag feiern" aloud to us adults, and started a craft project with wool that they gave up on entirely. brian took felix to his chorus rehearsal. the rest of us ran directly to the grazer congress to hear Ivan Eröd's concert fantasy with elke as soloist. a very rarely performed work, which was pretty stunning. there was a 30 minute talk instead of a 20 minute intermission and i didn't know if henry would fall asleep, but he didn't, and we saw the holberg suite and walked home.

we found we were locked out again (second time this week!) but by chance brian arrived 10 minutes later carrying felix.

new dishes (46/365c)

at exactly 10:22 I met up with Pauli at the bookstore, we ran some errands around town together, and ended up together at a japanese restaurant. for lunch they had 3 types of sushi full menus, all with soup. one was called "vegetarian sushi" which I ordered. It was fish sushi. We asked the waitress, and she explained that what I wanted was "vegan sushi" since "fish is vegetarian" so Pauli explained that fish are animals and can she please bring some "vegetarian sushi" ... she went away again, and came back with some sushi with vegetables and some with eel, because "eel aren't fish" .... and no soup. when i asked about the soup, she asked if that should be vegetarian. she ran inside to get a clipboard and a paper, and then asked me "so you would like a soup?" and then she wrote "soup" on the paper. I think I only have weird restaurant experiences with Pauli.

i picked up theodore from school and sat with him in front of the art museum to do homework. i borrowed the car from the foersters and picked up all of our pieces from our pottery class. traffic was terrible. Our results were (some of them) quite cute.

bad, better, and room for improvement

theodore's breakfast set

my new coffee and cream set with flowers from outside

listening to the grass grow (45/365c)

not too early, not too late.... we had breakfast outside with nina and kris (and noah and mama and everyone else) ... i walked with theodore to get the croissants.

mama and felix planted sunflowers to hang in the treehouse

very relaxed day with lots of chilling. ronja came over to play, and we made about 50 pita breads.

watching the bread rise into pockets

i got to meet vito, the new foerster baby, when felix and i took ronja home. when we got back everyone was gone - noah was in town and everyone else was at tosca. we didn't have keys so we were locked out of the house. we took a bath and cleaned the basement in the meantime. still plenty of fun without having to go inside.

tosca apparently fantastic, unless you asked henry.. he never wants to see the second half again, it is too "yucky".

mama arrives from ljubljana (44/365c)

peter's friend Noah arrived early in the morning. very early. i wanted to go for a nice klettersteig with manuela, but i was so stressed about getting things finished for my mama, so i sent noah with my equipment instead for his first via ferrata. it was a good action, i think: perfect weather. i was so jealous. brian was gone the whole day doing frisbee stuff. he didn't get back till 2am.

they got back and we had a drink and then a walk to get ice cream. finally mama arrived, right around bedtime. she read some stories, the kids went to bed (a little too late) and finally centa, mama and i had some snacks and some chats.

so much excitement
so much too tell
don't want to go to sleep yet