A summer party...

Today I was invited to a ex coworkers house for a summer party. Sad thing is that she has been fired recently. If it had been in Vienna it would have made my getting there so much easier. But she lives in the middle of nowhere somewhere in the countryside of Lower Austria. So the only way to get there was by renting a car.
Again I used Sixt to take care of the rental car. Had it reserved online. But this time I went for a BMW. After all, when renting a car you might as well go for a rental that you aren't very likely to buy yourself. And it should be a fun experience. I picked up the rental at Vienna's Hauptbahnhof. The process was a piece of cake. In under 10 Minutes I was on my way. And driving a BMW is definitely fun. The use of the GPS takes some getting used to. But I figured it out quickly. Went back home to spend a few hours with Gina before I had to leave. Gina wasn't exactly happy to see me go. She just turned her head an stayed under my desk.
But there was nothing I could do about it. Until I reached Vienna's Tangente traffic was no big deal. But who would have thought that there could be a traffic jam at Tangente on a Saturday at 2 pm. Certainly not I. It was really slow moving. But we finally made it past the construction zine. After that there was pretty much no traffic at all. And it turned out to be a very uneventful and fun drive. Apparently driving a car is like riding a bike. You never forget how to. After all it has been 3 years since I was last driving a car.
The party was fun. There were some of my current co-workers and some of Klarissa's friends. Of course we did talk a little about the craziness at work. But I really tried to steer the topic to something different. After all, for Klarissa just having been fired, this was not exactly a fun topic to talk about.
But the party turned out to be fun after all. Around Midnight I left since I was having a drive of about 1 hour. Made it home by about 1 am in the morning. Took a super excited Gina for her evening walk. And this was something she urgently needed. After all Gina had been by herself for over 10 hours and that's pushing it and I really don't like to do that. But I had to leave Gina again to drop off the car. I really didn't want to have to do that by 9 am in the morning. So I left again and dropped of the car at Haupbahnhof. Of course I had to walk back home since there is no public transportation at that time. But since that are only 10 minutes by foot it really didn't bother me at all. Got home to an even more excited Gina after that we enjoyed a very late evening together and relaxed to some Star Trek Voyager.