Baby, It's Freaking Hot Outside

So after the initial shock of the fact that I get to stay here for three more months settled down a bit there was some fun that was waiting to be had! Hans Peter decided that it was a good idea to have a staff outing on Saturday night and so after a boiling hot day of cleaning we got all prettied up and went to a hutte! (Of course!) It was gorgeous. The drive there was stunning as we followed a dirt road that followed a river and it was so cool to watch the temperature drop from 32 to 19 as we rose in the mountains. (The ninja awesome car had one of those thermometers in it...) We got to this hutte which was actually pretty small.. Our party took up almost the entire place. There were pigs and goats and a pony to play with and a little playground. And Jonny's little boy was wearing little baby lederhosen which was possibly the cutest thing ever. After making the difficult decision of which table to sit at it was time to look at the menus and enjoy some authentic Austrian food. Of course we all had to have our beers, wines and radlers, what would an outing in Austria be without them?
After thoroughly enjoying ourselves there a few of us wanted to check out this Weinfest that was going on in Forstau, so we piled into the van that only had one CD and it was dance music and it kept skipping so we just made our own remixes and the two gentlemen in the front seats had the time of their lives dancing which gave the people in back seats the time of their lives laughing. We got there and everyone is in Dirndls and Lederhosen and it is in this huge tent with loud amazing Austrian music and people are dancing on the chairs and tables and there is beer and cigarettes everywhere and it was amazing. It was so loud that you couldn't hear the person next to you and so full of smoke that my hair then whole next day smelt like an ash tray. But it was so incredible to see Austrian culture like this and to be part of it, standing on those picnic stables clapping your heart out. After a couple of hours of shouting at each other we left to go home only I wasn't tired at all. We got back to Tauernhof and a couple of people wanted to grab some kebaps so I told them, I am coming but I have to pee! So I go pee and come back and there is no one in sight. I was so confused that after about 15 minutes of deciding what to do I went and found them. We enjoyed the kebaps and the company while sitting outside the big yellow Catholic Church until the kebaps were over and tiredness found us. Then it was bed time.
It is freaking hot outside. So hot that all you want to do is hide from the outside world. On sunday it seemed like a good idea to go to the river and enjoy the sun and hang out in the sun. Until you fall asleep in the sun and get sunburnt in more places then you have ever been sunburnt before. I am not talking about just the shoulders got sunburnt or just the back. I'm talking; back, front, legs, shoulders but not my face yay! As glorious as that day was it caused some pain on my part. Not only the sunburn pain causing me to walk like an old woman cause it hurts to bend my legs, but the bruises I obtained, while going into the river to cool down but at a spot that was moving really fast and getting mini-swept down the river and banged on rocks, hurt too. So then I got told to put some Topfen on it cause Germans put Topfen on everything when it goes wrong. For those who don't know Topfen is sorta like sour cream, yogurt type thing that they mix with this kind of mixing yogurt and cream to make this type of food that you eat like yogurt. Get it? I thought so. So today I tried to do that. It was weird smearing sour cream on myself.. but I think it worked. Ish.. The burn is slightly less painful now.
It is so FREAKING hot. Or maybe it is just me because of my sunburn it is making me feel even hotter when the sun hits it. I feel like I am on fire. Kicking back in this big hot bubble. We went dirndl shopping yesterday which was probably not a good idea to do while sunburnt in the sun.. walking around.. dying. But we tried on some dirndls! It was awesome. I felt so Austrian. It was Annina's last day in the kuche so she wore her dirndl. In the evening we got to go to Martin's humble abode and celebrate Cede's birthday (his kid's nanny for the summer and ex-UB student). I found a hammock and made the mistake of lying down on it and struggling to stay awake while looking at the stars and listening to the conversation going on upstairs on the deck about how Cede can fit her fist in her mouth. Then their dog came over and we became best friends.
This morning was also interesting.. I was on breakfast and so had to be in the kuchen at 5.40am because breakfast was at 7am. And so I am sleeping, and I roll over to look at my clock to see how much longer I get to sleep for and it said that it was 5.42am. I kinda look at it.. then look at it again. It is so lying to me. This cannot be. I freak out and jump out of bed and managed to get ready in 5 minutes which was awesome and successfully completed breakfast. :D After breakfast while working in the kuchen I peeled and cut a whole bucket of onions without a single tear being formed. I was so proud. So was Lothar.
Well, I have no more words in my head. So until next time!