Come with me if you want to live: Museum and an online party

Good Friday evening people, or whatever the time happens to be when you read this. I wanted to talk about the past weekend here in Graz. On Saturday we took part to a party back home in Oulu over Skype. Reason for the party? On Christmas my sister Outi gave birth to her first-born daughter and on Saturday was her naming celebration. Unfortunately, we could not take part in the party in person, but luckily, we set up Skype so we could watch the families gather for a good time and give speeches and finally announce the name of the little baby girl and her name is Aamu. We gathered around a laptop with little cakes from the corner store to follow the party. Even with the sounds sounding like they were coming from an aquarium it was fun and we heard all the important parts and it was so lovely to be part of the celebration in anyway.

After the party we went to our first museum in Graz. We would have probably gone to one already, but it is really the offseason in here so many touristy places are closed at least until March. We went to the illusion / perspective museum (Museum der Wahrnehmung) we had heard about. The museum ended up being quite small, but still charming. The museum had three different themes in three different levels. Upstairs there was a small exhibition on medieval women’s coats of arms and signets and seals. Along with them was some mirror contraptions that created a 3d image for you when you looked into the piece. Slightly hard to describe and the pictures don’t explain them any better than I do, sorry.

Bottom level had more perspective art pieces that were little dull. Couple of them we did not understand at all what really was supposed to be experienced and why. There was one fun mirror piece again where you use your other eye looking at a rock and the other looks at a mirror where you move your hand. The experience is that you vision combines the visions into one and you seem to be trying to catch the rock which is nowhere near you hand. Middle level we did not really go through because on the weekend they had rented the rooms for some school workshop or other so there was a lot of people and tech around, so we didn’t feel like moving among these people. Luckily though because of this the museum was free for the weekend so, nice for us.

We also got our bikes in pretty good order and we have been starting to go around on them, so you might see them in some o de pics. Think that’s about enough for this time, I have a few small posts lined up and next week we will go on our first trip outside Graz so I’m not sure how the next posts will line up. Still anyway happy weekend lads and lasses.