The mercury has been rising here right along-side World Cup fever. As a result Sasha, Jonas and I decided to escape to the sea, and have Jakub joing us come weekend. We drove north to Sankt Peter - Ording where we had found a small apartment to rent. My German is so fabulous now that I thought I was booking an classic reed roofed house, common in the area. Instead we had the attic of a four-plex that turned out to be hotter than our rooftop apartment in Hamburg! No worries. We spent most of the day on the beach, hidden for the hottest part of the day in our little beach shell and then we had Siesta back at the apartment. We all stayed up late to watch the last of the World Cup games and really relaxed. It was SOOOOO refreshing to let go of schedules! I think I might just become a little more Spanish/Italian in my parenting after all. Well maybe not, since the boys were so tired today they fell asleep at 6:30 pm.
We did have a little glitch in our plans though, my ATM card was demagnetized and I was therefore without and money. No one takes Visa in the small towns and that was my only back-up. I thought this would be so stressful, but in the end, we took what money we had, bought food and enjoyed life. It actually ended up enriching the trip, if you can believe it.
Jakub joined us on Friday, coming by train, and on Saturday he had convinced me, forced me? to do something I have been talking about doing since I was 13 - a triathlon. Yup, I finally did it Mom and Dad. I swam 500m in the sea, road 20km "Gegen den Wind" against the wind as the triathlon is called, and ran 5km. All in all, it was AMAZING! All I can say is, "Why the hec didn' t I do it sooner?".
Nicole had a fantastic race, stayed relaxed and obviously had fun the whole way. Despite a thick, rented wetsuite she came in 24th overall and 6th in her age group. Not bad at all for first time.
Not to be outdone I ran a 1/2 marathon the next day. The race was much smaller which explains how I finished 18th overall and 8th in age group. The time was slow 1:50 but part of the race was through a deep sand and long stretches were into a brutal head wind.
As we were leaving a huge storm was brewing on the horizon. We got soaked on the way back to the house but the boys were safely tucked in a bike trailer. The last two pictures are by Jasmine who was also competing at the triathlon and offered to take Nicole on some training rides.
2 comments:
Hello Mizz Nicole and family. Congradulations on your first triathlon! They are quite fun aren't they. You two are quite the sporting couple, Jakub and his 1/2 marathon. Inspriational. I was looking through the other pictures from Filip's trip to Alaska, which took him through the Yukon and Dawson City to the Palace Grande Theatre where Pat and I were married last year. Your pictures are fantastic. Your boys are positively dreamy. I thought I would drop a hello and say how much I like just being able to check in to see what you are all up to every now and again. I like the blog. Love ya,
nikki
I can' t but agree.I always wanted to write in my site something like that but I guess you' r faster.
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