Today Gunter, Silvia, Sieglinde, Jenny and I went into the mountains to visit Sieglinde's cottage. The mountain journey was great, with quite interesting roads. After thirty minutes on a gradual incline, we reached a small lot where we parked before hiking 10 minutes to her cottage. The place was quite nice, and because the weather was nice we stayed outside to enjoy desserts and coffees.
While Sieglinde activated the place's water, Gunter and I talked about the future of energy and the prospect of electric cars in the next decade. My German vocabulary has been extended throughout my stay in Dornbirn, but unfortunately, my grammar skills are probably worse than when I arrived.
We returned to the car just as it began to rain and raced down the mountain to return to the Toefferl's place, as Silvia thought she had left the oven on for the past few hours. She was right, but fortunately, the flat was fine and soon we were headed up the other side of the mountain to enjoy some other scenery. Our journey peaked at the base of a ski lift where we had a beer in a pub.
We then proceeded to drive back to meet up with Stefan as he was ending work in a little while.
Our drive down the mountain
When we returned I joined Stefan and his friend Daniel on an excursion to the fitness center. The place was quite impressive. The machines indicated how quickly you should move your muscles and the free weights were also advanced. I was exceptionally out of shape and stuggled to curl/lift half of what Daniel suggested, but had more success with the leg exercises.
Following the work out we headed to the pool on the lower floor. It was a salt water pool which featured mood lighting and controllable message jets, a wonderful way to relax after straining myself for 90 minutes or so.
A view from the exercise place
After getting out of the pool we showered, drove Daniel home and then joined Gunter for dinner. It was great, and after we finished our plates, Stefan and I headed out to the Gruner Pavillion to meet Frank and others. Unfortunately, the place was pretty empty, so we headed home pretty early
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