WOW! A post not about travelling.

Hey everyone,

Was talking to some of you guys yesterday and was told that I should write about life in general as well (not just the travelling). So here goes nothing. Well, celebrated my birthday over here last week. It's weird here, you have to make the cake and do everything on your birthday (as opposed to having everything done for you back home), so i attempted to bake 2 cakes, 1 for work and 1 for home (wow, that was a pretty bad run on sentences and i guess all these bracketed text doesn't help (side note in a side note, doesn't this remind you guys of JD talking to himself in scrubs?)). So I made the one for work first, man, that didn't turn out very good. One of the twins gave me instructions but i guess 1 cup sugar and flour for every egg means 1/2 cups. So, I went on making it, batter tasted ok and looked nice when it was done baking. I added all the icing and all that and threw it in the fridge to take to work the next day. When I went to serve it, the cake was like SUPER chewy/hard. I was sweating trying to cut the damn thing. It was pretty funny watching everyone eating it tho :D. So, moral of the story, find out proper proportions before doing stuff.

Made another cake that evening, and that one turned out good, but someone took the leftovers from the fridge so only had a few slices
:(. The crappy part of being born on the 29th was it happened to overlap with the Confederations cup final between Brazil and Argentina. So, I had to celebrate 1 day late since nothing is more important then football (soccer) over here.


Ok, next, Canada Day. For Canada Day we happened to have a group outting to Zurich, so I didn't have to work for Canada Day either. Being all patriotic, I wore both my Canadian soccer jersey and Hockey jersey, along with my Roots hat and HUGE flag stitched onto my backpack, my boss was a little confused for a bit :). For the outting, we went to a water treatment plant (so boring, if you get offered a tour, turn it down, especially when the guides can't speak english and you can't speak german). After that torture, we went to a boat and did a lake/river cruise with non-stop booze and pasta (drinking with your boss is pretty cool, and all my co-workers are German, so man can they drink!). After that we just chilled around Zurich until we 7pm so we could take the train back for free (gotta love Glies Seben).

This week at work, the partners from german/russia are back, so it's gonna be a busy week of testing. For future plans, this weekend we might go camping (just walk to a random mountain and spend the day hiking). Next weekend looks like a trip to Vienna and the following weekend looks to be a trip to Luxemburg. The weekend after that is a long weekend (swiss national day = aug 1st (look ebear, the whole country celebrates your birthday(wow, more embedded sidenotes))) so we already bought our plane tickets to go to Budapest. For August, Leslie and Connie are coming for a weekend, so that'll be fun and a Trip to Madrid is in the works. So looks like a lot of travel blog postings are gonna be coming up in the near future.

Well, that's my random blog posting, o last thing, Al Qaeda sucks!!

Peace

Vic