Summer Holidays

Just to give you some of the impressions we are having here. I will not say much, from the pictures you can tell if we are enjoying it :)

Fort Lauderdale


Miami Beach:


Key Largo:


Dania Beach:


That's it for now, I will post some more later!

Wien Energie Business Run 2010

Hello again :)

Yesterday we had the business run in Vienna, and from NSN we were 4 teams. 4.2Km. Not my best time (28:03 minutes), because it was too cold for a poor Brazilian. Only after the second Km I stopped freezing...

The most important is that we had fun :D

(picts taken by Stöcher)

One of the highlights, the advertisement of the Austrian Trash collecting company at the men's WC entrance:

Uma mijadinha (a little pee)
Divertimento faz parte do evento! (Fun is part of it!)

Você o tem na mao (You have it in the hand)
Nao faca bobagem (Don't do anything stupid)

The word "Mist" in German can mean "something stupid" or "trash" ;)

Sommernacht Konzert - Schönbrunn 2010

Hi,

it was time again, the (for free) Sommernacht Konzert of the Wiener Philharmonika in the gardens of the castle Schönbrunn happened yesterday.

http://www.sommernachtskonzert.at/index.php?cccpage=programm&set_language=en

As a good Vienna citizen I could not miss it, and at 21:00 I was there for the gigantic start. For my suprise, and of all the other 99.999 people around, they started the show with a very known classical:

This was worth the 1,5 hours I spent standing (most of the time) and the 20 minutes walk needed for the 200m way from the metro station to the castle (one way)! It was so funny, the metro arrived at the station and we had difficulties to get out because the people of the previous metro was still trying to get out of the station (the ways are too small for the suddenly huge amount of people) ;)

And not to let the show go down they played another classical in the middle:

Sorry for the incomplete videos, but my (company) mobile has so many security passwords that it took me a while to turn the camera on :(

Next year they can wait for me again!

Cheers!

Family get together in Austria

Cool pictures! We had some fun there ;)

This is for the ones who know what it means ;) If you have no idea of what is going on, you don't know what you are missing!

Cheers!

Last weekend in Munich

Look what I did!!!!!!

Dream Holidays

Hi again,

after a long time, here am I again with more funy stuff. I was long offline because it is winter, and although I have more time for the Internet, nothing really happens when it is soooo cold here!

But I was in Brazil for 4 weeks, and here the results:

Christmas with familyBarbecue with friends
Beach with friendsBirthday with family

Barbecue with family

Beach with family

Here some highlights.

Familia, familia, janta junto todo dia, nunca perde essa mania!

And I thought they wanted to take a photo of me...

Natal in the background. Nice city live, I am starting to thing more seriously about it. And I am sure all my friends would like to visit :)

The Dolphins beach

Barbecue after the birthday party.

The link to all pictures (still a lot missing): http://www.pixum.de/viewalbum/id/4771477

Merry Christmas!

Finally Ski holidays pictures!

They are ready:



Nothing is like working during the summer in Europe. All my customers have holidays at the moment :))

Kisses,

Lu.

More holidays :)

This time I was in London, one week only. My sister Kika graduated in his Master studies in Arts there in the St. Martin's University, so I had a very good excuse to go on holidays again.

I don't understand why people complain about the weather there. The whole week we had rain for only a few hours one day! The rest was sunny most of the time and warm! And this is my second time there, and the second time I see the sun in London :) Maybe they have never been to Düsseldorf! ;)

Some proof:

Ok, ok, it is not so sunny as in Brazil, but compared to what people say it was close to perfect!

My sister work:

And of course the traditional "Change of The Guard":

Coming from one side:

Coming from the other side:

And the previous shift happily going home:

All pics:

kisses,

Lu.

Holidays

Hello again :)

I was in Brazil on holidays for two weeks in May, and after one year not going there, look what I found!





Isabella, 2,5 months, my beautiful niece, daugther of my syster Claudinha!















Lucas, 1,5 years, my handsome neffew, son of my cousin Mari!















Luana, 6 months, also my niece, daugther of my friend Fernanda!







And they like me!!!

Let's follow their example: Make love, not war!

Kisses!

I flew in one Embraer!

Hi people,

today my post will be mostly understood by brazilians, but anyone else is welcome to read it :)

Yesterday, I was flying from Warsaw to Munich with LOT (Polnish Airlines), ready for the weekend, and tired from the week. I entered the airplane, sitdown and started to dose while they do all that introduction to the flight and security. This is what I heard:

"szrethtzztzrzfdjswqqehdhswqe Embraer fhszdzdwwqqdfjgidsnflxmvhnbyöxlk!"

I immediatelly woke up to listen to the english version. They really said: Dear passengers, welcome to our flight today to Munich in our Embraer 170 bla bla bla bla. I almost cry. It was my first flight on an Embraer (Empresas Brasileiras de Aeronáutica) airplane :)

Here the proof:

Who else flew an Embraer? You are welcome to share your experience!

For not Brazilians: There are almost no Embraer airplane in Brazil, maybe because they are too small for the amount of people flying and the distances between cities with airports.

PS: I slept for the rest of the flight...

Cheers,

Lu.

Surviving

Hi,

since I can remember I've been living with allergy. But one month ago I went to the doctor, and she told me to do a computer tomography so she could see what I really have. According to her my nose was "clean".

I got the results, nice pics, and a A4 page fully listed with everything that was inside my head and should NOT be there. Depressing... I took the results to the doctor, and she didn't even want to discuss with me. Gave me antibiotics and told me to come back in 2 weeks for an allergy test.

This is this week, let's hope for the best!

But I think it is working, since I'm starting to smell some strange odors of the people in the metro and at the streets :(( I want my good old nose back!!!! You can live happier if you miss some aspects of real life ;)

Kisses,

Lu.

Snowtime II

Hallihallo,

now it is time for some snow again. Actually it was time for snow. It snowed a lot in Austria in the last weeks, beginning just after Christmas.

Last week I had a week of, and went skiing in St. Anton am Arlberg, Tirol. "São Pedro" decided again it was time for more snow, and the sun didn't show up a lot during the week, but the snow was perfect for skiing, and the slopes were awsome! We had fresh snow everyday! I even learned how to ski in buckle slopes. All slopes, including the beginners, had so much new snow everyday, that after noon the snow moved by the skiers grouped together to form advanced buckle slopes, and we had to come down yes or yes.

Apart from some very many blue spots on my legs and face, I survived well, and my bones are happy they have the day off today :))

On wednesday there were so much snow coming down that we decided not to go skiing, and instead we were presented with a great view of some crazy dutch trying to get their car to move. Check it out!

Try 1:



Snow attack:



Try 2:



Yeahhhh :)




The pictures will come next, after I have sorted them out.

Cheers,

Lu.

No Carnaval this year

Hi!

This year, unfortunatelly, I was forced to skip carnaval. Shit happens sometimes. I would have had the option to fly to Düsseldorf and enjoy it there, but I thought about it twice, and decided that I am not used anymore to stay out the whole day and night with temperatures under 0 degrees.

So I decided to stay in my warm and cosy appartment, enjoying some hot tea and my blankets :) And getting out of the appartment, I have the view as below. Enjoy it with me :)

Christmas times, Turkey times...

It's the 6th of January already, and I am still eating Turkey... Everybody went back home and I was left alone with the Turkey :(

Good that I have a big Freezer, and what was left from the Turkey is already inside, waiting for the next visitor!!! :)

We were hungry...

Christmas time - part 2

Well well, now it is official: my appartment was tested, and it passed the many chaos visitor test :)

My sister Kika came with a friend (Raquel = crioulinha), my cousin Manu and Franky. We had a great time together, mixing English, Portuguese and German. For sure now Kika, Crioulinha and Manu can speak better German than before, and Frank better Portuguese :)) And I got messed up and spoke German to Kika and Portuguese with Frank. Chaos!

But we all survived, well feed and drunk. We tried all sorts of hot wine available in Vienna, and roasted a huge 6Kg Turkey, which turned to be very very tasty!

The proof of the survival week:

Brunch on 24/12:

Turkey eating on 24/12:

Christmas fondue on 25/12 (meat, cheese and chocolate):

That's it, now it is fitness center time!!!!! :((

Christmas Time - Part 1

Christmas is now gone, and I just started to recover from it now... That's why I didn't write earlier.

One of the good things of being in Europe is the Christmas Markets everywhere. And considering I am very close to East Europe, I took one weekend in december to go to Prague and check their Christmas Market.

Apart of the ice cold weather around 0 degrees, it was wonderful. The city definetly worth a visit, even in Winter. And the hot wine is also very tasty. The highlight of the Czech Republic Christmas Market is the TRDELNIK, a kind of bread rosted directly in the fire. The flour mixture is rolled in a wood pipe, and after ready rolled over a mix of sugar, cinammon and nuts. Delicious!

Check the circles below the wonderful background scene :)

More pictures from Prague here: http://www.pixum.de/slide/4141743

Happy New Year to all of you! I wish (us) a 2009 full of happiness and success!

Oktober fest with insiders - NOT FOR TOURISTS

Servus!

Two weeks ago I went to Munich, for the Oktoberfest. Before I give you my impressions of this one, I have to say that exactely 12 years ago I went to the same Oktoberfest with 2 Brazilian friends. We arrived at about 4pm, convinced an Italian security guy to let us in, met another bunch of Brazilians inside and drank bier until 11pm, when they turned the lights off and kicked us out.

This time, with insiders, it was completely different... The steps are described below.

- They woke me up at 6:30 am on Saturday. Of course I protested, but they were 6 against me...

- We took the train to the pavillons at 7:30, and arrived there at around 8:00am.

- Then we had to wait in a line until 9:00, when they open the doors and start serving the one liter beer glasses. NOTE: we were not the first ones in the queue, and there is nothing else or smaller to drink...

- At sharp 9:00 we got our first beer. At 12:00 I had already 4 normal beer liters. I fell asleep at the table...

- At 2:00pm I woke up again, and for my relief my friends were still there, drunker than when I fell asleep. Very nice, the world is not so bad at all ;)

- 6:00 pm, no mention to go home again. No extra beer for me, and every now and then I had to stand on the banks with everybody "enjoying" the sound of "rum ta ta, rum ta ta".

- At 8:00pm finally someone decided to go home, and I was more than happy to join the group going home. After many wrong curves and S ways, we got home sweet home again, and started planning the next day agenda.

My position was clear: I AM NOT GOING TO WAKE UP AT 6 AGAIN!!!! At the end all agreed, and we woke up at the human normal sunday time 10 am, got dressed and went to the pavillon again. The sunday was nice and pleasant, apart of the whole drunk train on the way back to Vienna.

I'm still recovering from it, and don't talk to me about beer for now...

Quiz about Albania...

Who will pay the electricity bill at the end of the month???