Indecisiveness

At 4 am we were woken up by an SMS from David Levin saying that the morning flight had been canceled. The SMS also said that it was likely the afternoon would be canceled as well. Sure enough, at 9.30am we got another text to say the afternoon was canceled as well.

So we were faced with a day to find something to do. We headed down to the briefing tent to get onto Google to see if we could find any go karting or paintball in the area, so that we could vent some frustration. Unfortunately there was nothing close and those things that were around were closed because it was a Monday in the low season.
With absolutely no idea what we should do Yosh, Camilla and I decided we would drive to Hartberg to buy a game of some sort, so we could sit around drinking beer and entertain ourselves. Sean decided to stay back and work on some of his OziExplorer plugins, as this was the best way for him to stay focused on the competition when there was no flying to be done.

So we, somewhat aimlessly, wandered around Hartberg looking at shops and having a late long lunch. Having opted to buy Yatzee, we then went on a mission to find a shop that would sell five dice for less that 8 Euro (16 dollars). We eventually did, but on returning to the van we found we had a 20 Euro parking ticket.

Even though we were parked in a 120 minute spot, we eventually worked out that you need to put a clock on your dashboard showing what time you arrived so the parking police could work out if they should fine you or not. This was obviously something we did not know we had to do, so the fine was for not having the clock displayed. We were then faced with working out where we had to go in this town to pay (or argue) the ticket. The guy parked next to us said that we had to go to the police station. So we headed to the other side of town where we knew the police station was. Of course when we got there, they said that we had to go to the council building to pay the fine. So we tramped back across town to the council building, which was almost next door where we had parked originally. On arriving at this building, we asked someone where we had to go and he pointed at a door and said the 1 guy we could pay had gone home at 4pm. What a pain in the ass.

So tomorrow’s (Tuesday) mission is to go back to Hartberg and play the idiot foreigner card and try and get off paying the parking ticket.

We got back to the house at about 5pm and Camilla and I started up a heated Yatzee battle. It took a couple of games for us to agree on the rules, because apparently they play slightly different rules in Denmark. After Camilla, smashed me 4 games to 2, we headed up the hill to another local pub for another meal of random deep fried stuff and retreated back to our house.



At 9.30pm we got the SMS saying…

"Tuesday morning briefing is canceled. Party On! David Levin, Event Director"

So it looks like Tuesday is going to be another day of finding things to do. At least I have the Council of Hartberg to take on… that will fill some time.