Snow

No, the weather is not going that crazy. But I thought "Snow" is a good title for this entry following the sun and rain. And actually I had some snow this week. On Wednesday evening I was skiing. Yes, you read right. We can go skiing around the year.... we have an indoor skiing slope. You might think something like this only exists in Japan, but we have two of them not too far away from my house. The one we went to is the longer one. It is still a very quick run and a long time waiting to get uphill again, but with some friends it is fun. Barbara, Eva, Marcus and me tried it last Wednesday. Since Thursday was a day off many people left for a long weekend. So we found ourselves at the skiing place with approximately 20 more persons. It was really empty and a lot of fun. You pay 19,90 Euros for an evening ticket and this includes dinner and all soft drinks.



The danger sign was new. It is anything else than dangerous. The run is a very easy one and if you are not fast enough you have to walk up a little hill to get to the lift again.

The temperature is around freezing, maybe 30F. It is a special fun to go there in the middle of summer, wearing skiing pants, gloves, hats and sweaters with you while others walk in shorts and shirts.


I told you yesterday was a day off in Germany. Marcus, Eva and I decided to go for our first scuba dive this year. Diving after skiing. Fun. After loading all diving stuff into the car and even find a place for Senta to join us we managed to be on the road to the Netherlands by 13:00. The lake close to Nijmwegen is an one hour drive away. The weather was not too bad, at least dry in Essen, and when we arrived the sun came out. The water temperature was 15C in 6m depths, which was surprisingly warm. Nevertheless we put all neoprene that we have on.

The dive itself was fun. We saw some freshwater crabs and a very huge pike. Diving in a lake usually is not very exciting. Most of the times the visibility is very poor and even if you see some fish they are not colorful. But diving is all about experience so we try to do this even here in our lakes as often as possible. If it is not too hot we take Senta with us. She loves playing in the water when we are done diving.


After diving Marcus get rid of remaining water from the BCD.









Now it is time to pack all the wet stuff into the boxes and find a way to bring it home. Diving needs a lot of equipment.








After we had fun it was playtime for Senta. She enjoyed it, especially since we were the only ones there. The only problem is: she was too wet to drive in on the back seat of the car with us.

No we didn't leave her there and she didn't have to run home, we used a towel. Cute!!!

That was my week, well, the fun part of my week. Of course I had to work and did some routine things, but who wants to read about this.
Take care!