Vienna, Dresses, Balls and Hotels

Saturday morning we moved on to Vienna to check in to Hotel Imperial. Fortunately my brother works there, so we got the room for a really nice price.

The afternoon we ran around in town to find a dress for Lovisa that she could wear on the lawyers ball, one of Vienna's most elegant balls. I think we checked 20 stores and tried every dress. It was hard hard work but the result was amazing!

Some posing like Paris Hilton.

The ball was opened with a traditional black white opening in the Wiener Hofburg, the former residence of the Habsburg rulers.

Back to the hotel my brother showed us some of the really expensive rooms where Queen Elizabeth, Putin and Condoleezza Rice usually stay for 7000€ a night.

Skiing II

No, it's not Sweden it's the Austrian alps. The only place where the sun is always shining, the people are always friendly and where the snow is not artificial. Some people might call it heaven, we call it Kitzsteinhorn. A great glacier for snowboarding with a big funpark and the possibility to go off pist and ride down in powder.

This one shows Lovisa's first jump on the board.

Visit från Sverige day 2

The second day we went snowboarding to Kleinarl. A small but nice skiing area in Salzburg. The snow was all right for this strange and warm winter. We could even go down in powder snow. It was Lovisas 7th day on the board and she even went down a half pipe. She learns fast! But at the end she's really tired ;-)

I also tried some jumping in the soft powder were falling doesn't hurt...

Visit från Sverige day 1

Last week I got a visit from mpenzi Lovisa.
The first day I showed her the great town of Linz with all it's sights. Yes, Linz is so small that one day is enough. There was even enough time to buy a nice binding for her snowboard.

Inside the "new cathedral" of Linz

There I grew up

The art gallery

The plan was to visit my aunt later that evening, but there was no time. Instead we were looking for an evening dress for Lovisa to wear at the lawyers ball in Vienna (without success - yet).

Marks from Africa

Yesterday, one year after I had my last exam at Chuo Kikoo Dar es Salaam I finally got my marks.
But why do I get a B in 'keyboard instruction' and in 'university chorus'? I have never attended this courses (didn't even know that there is a university chorus). But I think now I understand, probably I got that classes because 'artificial intelligence' and 'network design and administration' is just missing, as if I've never been there though that are the only two classes I could use here for my studies...
That's the African style I love so much.

Winter in Åre

When the winter doesn't want to come to Europe it hides in a small village in Sweden called Åre. We went there to search for it, well we found a little bit and we had lots of fun with it! Lovisa, winter and me went snowboarding (it was the first time for Lovisa), winter and I told her how to do it and she learned really fast!
But there was not only snowboarding. One day we went with a Hundspann (dogsledge) around Åre and we made friends with Kiwi, Knas and Fläcken three sweet Huskies.

We found winter