I'm still exhausted from last weekend, with mano mundo in the schorre behind my apartment and a weekend long street fair going on in front of my apartment, I didn't get much sleep...
On Saturday I also got the crazy idea to walk ~15km to my dad's house, not that hard on it's own since I used to walk allot when I was younger, but lately I've been interested in barefooting so I wanted to try those ~15km barefoot... I think I got about 12km's done before the prickly asphalt became to much to bare, still quite a bit for an unhardened foot I think. The final outcome however was that I had blister on one foot and had a hard time walking any distance barefoot across prickly surfaces like asphalt and most sidewalks around here.
Still, the next day was my first free flying day with ikarus and a bit of sore feet or exhaustion wouldn't stop me, so on Sunday around 5:30 am, my alarm rang. After several hours driving, first on my own, then in the ikarus van, we arrived at the "hetschenberg" (Volmarange) site. Most of us managed at least two flights and did some soaring, turning the 180m decent into flights of half an hour or longer, so getting up early had been worth it. Personally I did two flights, having quite a bit of trouble with the backward launches, something I had little chance to practice so far. Still, I can't wait till next flight day next Sunday.
Between all of this I've also found a new game to play, Pirate galaxy, for which I posted a review on everything2.