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-title: "Week 13, Sunday:"
+title: "Week 13, Sunday: Padel!"
 date: 2024-10-27T21:55:00+02:00
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+I woke up at 08:30 after a tremendous sleep. I love sleeping in my own bed, the difference between
+its comfort is most apparent just after I return from a trip abroad. This morning I have a sportsing
+date with Johhny and Mari. A while ago, maybe half a year by now, Johnny mentioned that he's into
+[[Padel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padel)], a racket sport of Mexican origin, typically played
+in doubles on an enclosed court slightly smaller than a doubles tennis court. 
+
+It feels fitting to play this game precisely today, as I understand it's the second most popular
+game in Spain, second only to football. Seeing as I just got back from Spain, I may as well :) I
+drive over to _Milandia_ and enter the Padel hall to find a jolly Mari and Johnny already there. I
+have never played this game before, but I have played both tennis and squash, so I think I will get
+the jist of it 🎾. Mari and I have to go rent a racket, and it becomes apparent that Johnny hasn't
+played particularly often with his: the price tag is still on his racket :)
+
+It's a super fun game! We are only three, so we take turns ganging up on a singleton. The trick
+seems to be moderating power. It's very easy to whack the ball against the back wall (it has to
+bounce on the court first), or thwack it out of the court, and onto the next team's court. This
+happens to us a few times, but we are not alone. We also sometimes welcome a foreign ball onto our
+court as well. 
+
+We have the court for one hour and trust me: that's plenty. I am still coughing a bit from the cold
+remaining after my long week of travels (NLNOT and ESNOG). My heart rate goes up to 160 at times,
+but is usually in the 130s which is tolerable. After the 55min of game time, I seem to have burned
+680kCal and my body is super happy. Well, it also hurts like a _mofo_,  but it is thankful that I
+have put it through its paces. And I am not alone: we set a date for next week Sunday 3rd and the
+10th as well. Mari and I debate buying a racket, but we both think we should maybe play a little bit
+more first. I make her a deal: I will buy her a racket if we play ten times. She reciprocates and
+offers to buy me a racket also. Deal!
+
+At home, Quinn is gathering a box of stuff from the basement. Next week is Hallowe'en, and we are
+practicioners. Remember we bought a few metric tonnes of candy last [[week]({{< ref wk12day4.md >}})]?
+Well, we'll be making little baggies for the kids who come to trick-or-treat at our door.  Quinn
+makes quick work of decorating the front yard with spider webs, our Elza ghoul and a bunch of
+stay-out tape. I add copious amounts of spiders to the webbing and overall think it looks wonderful.
+
+Back inside, I am reminded of a chore I gave myself: tending to my geocache called
+[[Schüracherstutz](https://coord.info/GC657NY)], the container of which has gone missing a while
+ago. I create a new one and add a logbook to it, and make my way over to the little one. Marina asks
+me on the way out to get a bottle of milk in case she needs it for tonight's dinner. I bike over to
+GZ and replace the geocache, then to the Coop Pronto to get some milk, and then through a light
+afernoon Sun back home where Marina has started making a second helping of _Vol au Vent_.
+
+Last week, we were supposed to have Jan-Christiaan and Sandra over for dinner and they were very
+much looking forward to this _Vol au Vent_. In the end, I ate some in our guest room during
+isolation when I was in the full-on [[sick period]({{< ref wk12day6.md >}})]. I couldn't taste a
+thing, and as such, had to report that I did not enjoy it. But lucky me! I get a second chance :)
+
+I prepare for us a soup of butternut pumpkin. This soup has only the pumpkin, one onion and a few
+cups of vegetable stock. I will season it with home made croutons and roasted pumpkin seeds with
+salt. It'll be great. Marina mean while makes little meatballs and cuts the chicken for the sauce.
+She will also be making mocca ice cream with little pieces of Oreo. I'm sure JC and Sandra can
+appreciate that, being the proud owners of oreo.nl.
+
+Our guests arrive at 17:00, on the dot. You can tell we're not the only ones that are _Swissing_! We
+catch up over a suitable _ap&eacute;ro_ of Mattei Cap Corsa, a corsican drink which we first enjoyed
+at their place a few months ago. Before dinner, I show them the flight simulator and take a little
+loop flight from LSMD to LSMD, showing lakes of Greiffensee and Pfaffikersee before turning around
+and landing again. It's a quick tour sharing what I've learned so far of the controls and cockpit.
+
+Dinner is enjoyed. The main course is to die for: I definitely missed out last week, as Marina says
+it tastes exactly the same [no, it doesn't]. The _Vol au Vent_ is fantastic. We chat about work,
+travel, the vacation to the northern american continent that Sandra and JC made, as well as the city
+trips that Marina and I have made over this last Fall. The desert is a mocca ice cream which Marina
+has made herself with her trusty rusty ice cream machine: a good investment!
+
+We agreed not to make it too late today; Sandra and Quinn both have to go to work tomorrow morning
+and JC will be traveling to Dublin. So we go easy on the sauce and by 21:00 or so, we say our
+goodbyes. Marina and I watch one episode of _Lilyhammer_ (my favorite episode by the way, the one
+which takes place in Gjendesheim): Roar gets saved, the brittons take a swim in lake Gjende, and you
+can just see Memurubu and [[Besseggen](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Besseggen)] (which is my
+favorite place on Earth) and Jonny thugs his way through Muriburiland
+
+## Pictures of the Day
+
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+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-27/IMG_2239.JPG" caption="Johny, Mari and me after an hour's worth of Padel. That was good fun, let's do it again!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-27/IMG_2241.JPG" caption="Quinn has decorated our front yeard, inviting the kids over for a trick-or-treat later this week" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-27/IMG_2243.JPG" caption="I'm doing geocaching container maintenance and need to replace my Schuracherstutz one" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-27/IMG_2245.JPG" caption="The Vol au Vent is delicious - thank you, Marina!" >}}
+{{< /gallery-category >}}
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