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Football, Strobe Light, and Kitty

Football
We had the opportunity to watch our friend Ulrich (German Teacher at ICSV) play in an American Football game on Saturday. We sat in the rain and cheered on his team to an exciting OT victory.

Game ending touchdown

Final Score

Strobe Light
After the game, we drove to a small village outside of Salzburg for a concert. The bands Spoken (USA) and Ceil (DE) were scheduled to play in Vienna; we had some issues with finding an appropriate and affordable venue so we had to cancel the show. The problem was, Spoken had planned their itinerary with a departure from Vienna. So we agreed to drive to this concert and pick them up so Ceil didn't have to make a 450km detour to drop them off. We will be hosting the band members at our apartment and showing them around the city.

We had a good time at the concert, held in the kellar of an old brewery, despite an increasingly annoying strobe light...it was the last official concert of the tour so both bands really put on a good show.

Ceil

Ceil

Justin with the guys from Ceil

Spoken with the strobe light in action


Kitty
We stayed at a small Gasthaus right across the street from the concert venue. It was nice to be able to drop into bed after a long day. It also served as a nice little getaway for Rebecca, Justin, and I  and allowed us to see a new part of Austria. We enjoyed the presence of the house cat sleeping away the morning in the lobby...until Justin tried to pet it and it went into attack mode...fortunately, no Justins or kittys were hurt.





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