a little bit of this and a little bit of that

the kids have a school holiday this week and so we try to keep them happy and entertained...
last Sunday we met our friends from Cairo in their house in Vienna/Schwechat. friends of ours with whom we often met in Cairo at weekends to have a swim in their ridiculous large swimming pool at their compound or to go to the desert together...this time temperatures were a bit different but still the kids were happy to see each other and play and we grown ups discussed our situation again...




















on Monday we went to the "House of Music" and the kids especially enjoyed the room that made us hear what the baby hears in the belly and Mia was most excited to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra :-)

on Wednesday we went on with our tour and had a wonderful afternoon at the "House of the Sea". we saw the feeding of the sharks and agreed that we liked the lovely turtle "Puppi" best followed by the little monkeys!

and I feel the girls and I are really lucky to have Christian with us. still we would love to go back to Cairo as soon as possible and join our friends who are already there. unfortunately no news for us yet and so we'll move to apartment nr.3 next week. Mia is not happy about all the moving and for the first time in her life I heard her say: "I don't want to go to school!" I am sure the Vienna International School is a wonderful school but Mia just wants to be with her friends and teachers in Cairo...
nevertheless we talk a lot and try to make things as easy as possible for the kids. unfortunately it does not always work that well as also we grown ups a bit tensed sometimes.
here I can only say thank you to Karin from Benghazi who opened the way to yoga with me. I don't know where she is at the moment and I can only hope she and her family and so many other friends of ours from Benghazi are safe!

to cheer us all up the girls with their new shower hats ;-)