More good times

The last week has flown by, but as I want to memorize it all here is a small potpourri of photos. Blogs are great!

Our small hop to Bad Mitterndorf was really nice. We had the first of snow, not too much to be annoying, but enough to make us feel warm and cozy inside!

A chit-chat with good friends. It was some effort to get the three of us on the photo - thanks for pressing the button, Tschü! And please all: Give a warm hand to Julia in the background - I thought I knew the ranking of people who really, REALLY do not want to be photographed, but Julia tops them all! She could not escape though because I was blocking the seat. *wicked grin*

Celebrating my mother-in-law´s birthday at the same place as always. (I don´t know, but food was too heavy somehow, maybe we should try something else next time.)

She got this (in addition to a tv and dvd recorder, but it did not follow us to the Wöglerin.) Happy birthday, Moni!

Tea and the best brownies in the world at Meindl am Graben. Check: http://www.meinlamgraben.at/page.aspx. And if you are there, really, have one of the brownies. They melt in your mouth...

Right nextdoor is the 2nd largest Louis Vuitton shop worldwide! Doing some windowshopping was nice - but wait until I am back!

At St. Stephens they were celebrating mass when we stepped in, so I do not know if the colours are like this all the time or only during mass. Anyway it came as a surprise!

We also went to an Asian restaurant for some very nice Corean dim sum, followed by Sushi.

And then the 1st of Advent was there. It arrived quite unexpectedly, four weeks to go until Christmas!

Have a wonderful Vorweihnachtszeit! You better watch out, you better not cry - Santa and the Christkind are just around the corner!

Good times

Yessir, let´s rock and roll! I did not get out a lot during the last couple of weeks, so it was about time!  Free as a bird and not a care in the world .... okay, both is not correct, but still I felt like going out and chill. And luckily I found people who were in the same mood!

In the rebuilt UCI Millennium City they opened up a new Steakhouse (decorated in Wildwest style), and it was a spontanous idea to go there. But it looked so nice from the outside that we could not resist and simply had to walk in and give it a try.

It took a lot of being mean and really strict, because Zinsi hates to be on photos. In fact this is the only photo of her that is not a blur - I wonder if she can warp out like a vampyre?? (Thank you so much for inviting me on food and drinks! And thanks for letting me get dessert later! - Another occation of being really mean and strict, a tough evening. And no worries, I am not saying what we had and were we went.)

The spareribs were very nice, they came with a honey dip and lots of other yummy things. Luckily we ordered the small portions - the big ones are overwhelmingly huge!

 And a cocktail afterwards. I think the barkeeper was in training, because I had expected my Virgin Barbados to be frutier, instead it came like a creamy Banana. But it was yummy anyway.

Thanks for a great evening, Zinsi!

 

 

Of course we had some family quality time too. The mamas came, my mom still beaming with pride and everything, and it was a huge exchange of presents and surprises. And of being happy and warm and comfy...

With beautiful flowers and good wine and, and, and......

 

And of course with two happy mamas.

 

 

The next day "the girls" and me went to the "Wirtshaus Steirerstöckl" check out www.steirerstöckl.at, a Styrian restaurant right next to the Pötzleinsdorfer Schloßpark in the outskirts of Vienna´s 18th district. Long-time friend Sigi, new-found friend Riki and I had planned on a gourmet menue to toast and chat and enjoy.

The food was absolutely wonderful! If you plan on going there check the menue first: It is not really cheap. But if you want to celebrate a bit or simply do yourself something good then this is the place!

Riki had a gorgeous looking carpaccio (photo of which was too much of a blur unfortunately, but if there is a next time there I guess I definately will have that), and Sigi and I had the "Steirerhendl" (with chestnut and plum stuffing - what a feast!).

 

The girls had some chestnut mousse afterwards. Hmmmm........

Amd then off to a relaxed walk in the Pötzleinsdorfer Schloßpark. I have not been there for so many years, but it was exactly as I remembered it. A walk down memory lane...

It is so good to have friends - old ones and new ones! I thank you for the good times we had together, and I hope for some more "Rock and Roll" really, really soon!