M O N D A Y & T U E S D A Y
This week started slow after coming home from Innsbruck and we spent Monday and Tuesday with repacking our stuff for some days in Bad Gastein. So Tuesday evening Stefan's mom came to Wien and picked us up. Then we spent a calm evening in Wilhelmsburg. 😊 We went to bed earlier so we could get up earlier in the next morning.
W E D N E S D A Y
Bad Gastein here we come! Yes, we got to borrow Stefan's sisters car and started to drive around eight in the moning. The road trip went actually quite fast and we arrived to Gasteinertal around lunchtime. There we stopped at the new cabelcar in Schlossalm/Bad Hofgastein, to just check it out and say hi to a friend at Intersport there as well. Then we went straight to the skirental in Bad Gastein and rented skating crosscountry skis. The weather was awesome and really hot, so we went to Sportgastein and started to do some crosscountry skiing. We ended up with skating 11 km and I think it was fun, but of cause very exhausting... The teknik is hard I think, but it was so much easier in the end and that makes me happy to feel some progress. 😅 Later on after tired legs, we stopped by the DJ battle in Bad Gastein to meet some friends. We were pretty tired tho, so we did not stay so long. Therefore we took the car and drove to Carolines place, I met her my first season, and that's where we could stay for the days we were in Bad Gastein.
T H U R S D A Y
There were a lot of new experiences during this trip and skitouring was one of them... Where should I beginn? It was horrible to walk upwords in the beginning and I did not think I would make it to the top. I was wrong tho! I made it to our goal, the top restaurant on Graukogel. We took the hikeingroad in the forrest and I was so amazed that the grip was so good with the skins under the skis. So cool! It was really a fun experience and I could definatly do it again or more towards hiking for a good powder line. 🙈 We were so dead after that adventure! I think I fell asleep at 19.00 or something and then woke up way later... Heheh felt so sorry for Stefan. 😅
F R I D A Y
My Friday morning started with a photo session with another friend from the first season, Ulli. She is a Yogainstructor, so I asked her if she were up for shooting some cool Yoga pictures by the waterfall in Bad Gastein. It was really cold down by the water and she were so brave all the time balancing on the slippery stones. Pictures from the shoot will soon come up here on my blog and on my Instagram @oliviahenningssonphotography. I'm so happy with the result and there was definitly something so powerfull and calm at the same time in the simple yoga poses with the waterfall in the background. After the photo session we had something to dringk and got to catch up a little bit. Then I hurried to get myself a 3 hour skipass to join Stefan, David and Philipp for some skiing before lunch. So after the first turns I felt so bad in my leggs that we had been skitouring the day before... 😅 puh... After 3 runns I was so tired! So guess who was happy when we went for lunch at Rossalm? 👋 Later in the evening we actually went for dinner at Rossalm again, but this time in the evening it was more fancy of cause. We had a nice evening together with friends and later we went to Silverbullet for a while before we finally went home to sleep.
S A T U R D A Y
This day became our resting day... So we slept for a bit longer and then went for some breakfast at a bakery down at the waterfall in Bad Gastein, but the service there were so bad I have to say. The lady that worked there could not have been enjoying her job. 😅 After that we simply went to the best coffe place in town The Blond Beans and bout some cinnamonbuns and I had a chailatte. Nom nom 😋 Spar was our next stop to get some simple lunch and then go back to chill in our room for a bit. I watched the ladies ski the 30 km skateing in the crosscountry WM in Seefeld. So cool the the young swedish girl Frida Karlsson took another medal. In the evening we went for another nice dinner at Dropinn with my swedish friend Annie.
S U N D A Y
Our last day in the mountains... We had a great morning on the skis and my legs were not as tired this time, so I could enjoy it way more. I thought we had to go over to Schlossalm and try out the new cablecar they built new for this season. So we did! The sun was back and life was good! It's so fun to do all this together with Stefan and I hope there will be more adventures in the future. After a nice lunch in the sun at Rossalm we packed the car and started to drive back home towards Wien again. I think we had a very nice weekend, except the lack of snow maybe, but for this time it was totally okey. 😄 Last but not least we cleaned Stefan's sisters car as a thanks to her for beeing able to borrow it.
T H O U G H T S
This week I have been high of life on the road and filled with good energy. It's so nice to get a change of enviornment once in a while and the last two weeks it was definatly doubble up on that point. First with Innsbruck and now Bad Gastein. I feel as best when I have something to do all the time and don't really have the time to think of doing lazy stuff. I need to stimulate myself better and use my time in the best possible way to get the most out of it. Of cause there should also be time to rest and relax inbetween. I hope that I can fin a good balance here in Wien soon.
T I P O F T H E W E E K
My tip of the week is to try out new things. I have really been doing that this week in the crosscountry sking and the skitouring. Both were definitly something I will try again and I managed to do so much more than I expected. I need to be better in believing in my own body and what it can do, because it's stronger than I think. Beeing outside is so nice and I feel so much better from that compared staying inside all day long by the computer. By trying new things I can get out more and feel better. It does not have to be some outside activity, it can also be a yoga class or a dancing class for example. New things can also be to read a book for a change, start to write a diary or taking an art class. Yes, actually what ever you find interesting! Go out there and try new things! 😃 I promise you will grow as a person!