Meine Klein Welt

Vienna Night Run

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Night Run '08I ran the Vienna Night run with some other staff and students. The almost 4 kilometer route began and ended at the Rathaus (Vienna’s City Hall). Even though I’d only actually trained for about 2 weeks (after a 6 month layoff) and was fighting off a cold, I enjoyed the run through Vienna’s inner city and the post race entertainment.

I must admit I was spellbound by a rather portly Austrian man juggling and twirling various things he lit on fire. I think my favorite were the nunchucks.

Really, though, can you ever go wrong with nunchucks? Especially flaming

nunchucks.

Night Run '08

More pictures from the race are here:
Vienna Night Run Pictures

Wedding Pictures

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I think most of you have already seen these, but I imagine there are some out there that we missed somehow. They’ve been out for a couple of weeks now. Sorry if we didn’t get an email out to you.

To see our pictures follow this link

http://www.pictage.com/439186

and type in the Event key: pm072608.

The Europe Cup

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Austria is co-hosting this year’s Europe Cup along with Switzerland. This means that my neighborhood is in complete chaos for the coming month. There are crazed soccer fans everywhere! Today I took a little break and walked around the Graben which is the main street in the city. I took pictures of several different store displays as well as a few fans. Everyone has soccer fever! You can see pictures here.

Welcome to the Jungle

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Matt turned 30 this year. Actually, his birthday was a couple weeks before mine, but I blogged mine first. Tells you about my priorities. 🙂

Anyway, I threw him a “Welcome to the (30’s) Jungle” monkey themed party. It was a fun time of celebrating my favorite monkey. You can see pictures on our Flickr site here. The most popular gift of the night was the flying/screaming monkey. You send it flying like a sling shot and it does a crazy banshee scream when it hits something. A little scary when it comes at you, but mostly just fun.

The fun fact we all learned about Matt is that he has apparently played Barrel of Monkeys a lot because he pretty much always wins.

Happy Birthday Matt!

Happy Birthday to Me!

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Yep. Today is my birthday. Having your birthday on a school day is the best when you’re an elementary teacher. Today my students planned a surprise party for me. It was actually quite amazing. They plotted with Matt to have him come down at 10:30 and say he needed to talk to me. They even made him plan what he was going to talk to me about so he wouldn’t mess up. 🙂 While he was talking to me, the kids decorated the room with balloons, banners, and cake. They got it completely decorated in about 10 minutes. Then when I walked back in the room, they crowned me with a tiara and sang “Happy Birthday!” I tell you, fourth graders know how to throw a party!