Thursday started once again with a visit at the gym and after that I went home to start packing for this weekends adventure. In the evening I had a dinner with another swedish girl in this restaurant called ULRICH and I have to say that it was very nice food there. Anyway I had never met this girl before, so it was fun to get to know someone new here in Wien. She was in the same situation as me, but two years ago. 😊 I really enjoyed to hang out with her and I hope we will meet up again and get to know each other better. After dinner I went to Stefan's place with my stuffed backpack. 

 

 

S A T U R D A Y 

The day I was looking forward the most to! We started early this day as well, but not as early as the day before. The breakfast at the gasthaus was cozy and after that we hurried to the bus that took us to hauptbahnhof and there we joined all the Swedish and Norwegian fans on the train to Seefeld and the Nordiche Ski-WM. 🙈😄 Yes, we were about to see the Skiathlon live! It was a cool feeling! The train was filled up with supporters from the nordic nations and I was amazed how entusiastic people were about the crosscountry skiing. I'm also one of those that always watch the swedish television  "Vinterstudion", that is showing all the FIS skiing during the winter season, and follow it activlly during the winter. I have never seen them skiing live before tho... That was something different! We arrived in Seefeld with the train and then it was all foggy and you could not see much of the surroundings. We followed the stream of people and ended up at the arena for the crosscountry skiing. I really enjoyed to be there and Stefan slowly started to get why I wanted to go there. 😁 It was a good atmospare and we grabbed some glühwien on the way out on the fanzone next to the tracks. The classic part of the track was a bit separated from the skating part, so we decided to go to both areas and now the sky was blue and the sun warmed our faces. Could it be better? 😍

 

The race started and the ladies was first out as usual. Allready in the first part of the race Therese Johaug from Norway started to get a gap to the outhers and the speed was very high from the start. The swedish girls was of cause there in the hunt to get closer to Johaug, but it was not theire day to 100% and they did not reach the girls from Norway. Me and Stefan took a risky way over the snow when we changed to the other part of the track for the skating. I got some snow in my booths, but we survived. 😅 After the ladies race ended and the swedish girls ended in 5th, 6th, 11th and 13th place, we decided to stay in the sun at the skating track and watch the first part of the guys race on the big screen. I got some nice photos and it was very fun to photograph some crosscountry skiing. I will of cause show you the pictures later in an other post! 😄 The guys had no luck with the medals either and I think Jens Burman ended up in 8th place as best swedish guy. Won the two gold medals did Norway and theire fans was very happy! After they also finnished we went directlly to the train and were lucky to get on the next one leaving and we got some seats! Yeeey! Both of us were very tired after beeing all day in the sun and we did get some tan as well. So the evening was not so exiting...