"Kitzbeel"

January runs fast! February is knocking on the door...
The best of the best events in the year (in every year actually) took place in Kitzbühel/Kirchberg - my beloved ski resort. A place where I forget about everything and everyone. New participants are delicately chosen by established members of the team. This year's choise was wery wise - all of them fit the team perfectly!
2 cars left from Brno on Wednesday January 14th at noon. Smooth journey ended up at the foot of a Kirchberg hill, where our cars were not able to climb up the hill without snow chains. Guys had to set the chains and we finally reached our accommodation - 2 cute appartments in a sort of "Austrian farm house". We were skiing from Thursday morning till Sunday noon - conditions were excellent and weather was amiable. The scenario was again the same - having breakfast, skiing, resting, cooking dinner, drinking and talking, sleeping and all over again. Boring? No way...
First day of skiing I fell and bumped my left thumb...ouch. I rolled it into a bandage and skied anyway. I have had a proper "doctor" bandage on it for a week or so when back in Brno.
Part of the ski resort was being prepared for Hahnekamm races - the most prestrige races of the year. The racing ski slope is incredibly steep - being on the top makes you sick! ...but "ordinary" people are not allowed to ski on it as it is covered with ice - yes, the skiers ski on ice! A swiss skier is already in a hospital kept asleep as he didn't make it at the last jump. Poor guy.
Apart from these tragic moments, the place itself is very pleasing and hopefully - next year, same time, same place, same people.

First Day

As predicted, entertainment on command was fun from the start and nostalgic at the end. The youngest member of our New-Year-Eve Team was Little Žibřa and his 2009 entry was very brave - he didn't cry at all even though midnight fireworks must have really been disturbing for him. Salsa dancing by Cuban ex-pats Jorge and Jose was the highlight of the night!
First day of the new year has been surprisingly very active - idling in the bed with teeeeeerrible headache (and one happy couple), family after-lunch (svíčková can never spoil it) and cultural grand finale - Tutanchamon exhibition. Expensive tickets, stunning implementation, both played and documentary projections, static dioramic scenes, quality promo and finally gorgeous amount of copies of the tomb treasure make it a cultural experience of this year! Comparing to the "sex exhibition" I went to see yesterday, this one definitely doesn't suffer from lack of financial resources. Perfect copies of the tomb content have been replicated to the smallest detail and they are petrifying. It is hard to believe that in European pre-historic era the ancient Egyptians knew how to write and were building magnificient temples, making mummies and imperfecting the procedure of embalmment. Tutanchamon didn't rule for long time but what was left after him is worth seeing. The copies of all objects are perfect and shiny and in case you didn't know it - his body was hidden in a gold coffin placed in a colorful sarcophagus placed in another majestic golden sarcofagus placed in a stone sarcophagus placed in a golden case made of wood placed in 3 other no-less golden cases, last of which is about 4 by 3 metres (approximately...my educated guess because I don't remember exact numbers). And this huge "thing" rested in a burial chamber for thousand years untill Howard Carter excavated it and made a break-through beyond any kind of imagination.
And I bought the ski helmet! ...with a butterfly:-)