Mr. and Mrs. De Mooij visited me yesterday and today. Naturally, we walked around the city. Slight difference: this time I tried the “green city” tour, and it worked brilliantly. Slight hickup in Pfaffental, but I’m sure I’ll get the kinks worked out by next time (more precisely: I expect the kinks / paths undergoing reconstruction to be reconstructed next time). Somehow, everything came together for this visit, and we saw and did just about everything I wanted to :)
Two highlights: we checked the schueberfouer (funfair). There are a lot of stall with shooting… phewee. Plenty of PS3s/Wii’s to be wun — if you manage to shoot the impossible. Naturally, we didn’t try. We did try a machine called the “take off”, which turned out pretty cool, the giant wheel, offering a nice view of the funfair (well, the rest of Lux was rather dark, so it wasn’t all that exciting), some gambling machines (we lost — even at the gigantic crane, which is fun to do, but hopeless to win at :) and also tried some bowshooting. More on the bows later :)
The next morning, after brunch, we went for a short hike in Little Suisse. We drove to Berdorf, and began on route B2. Now as soon as you hit the forest, you are bombarded with signs pointing out nice viewpoints. We checked most of them, and consequently didn’t really progress very quickly. It was quite adventurous, and wonderful to behold once more. A little further down on the route, we discovered a climber’s paradise. So all I now need, is my climbing gear here, a crash course in outdoor climbing, and a sizable length of rope. Oh, and to make matters more challenging: magnesium is disallowed there. Pffffft. Well anyway, something to keep in the back of my mind.
So, back to the bow shooting gallery… I like it!! I turn out to be left-handed at bow shooting (and writing, but that I already knew). Weird, I believe the last couple of times I shot, I shot with a right-handed bow. But this time, it just felt wrong. I did try once later on, but it sucked just a bit more than left (well, not that I am that lousy at these short ranges, but still, noticable deterioration of skill). Today, after the hike, we had the “Limpertsberg” tour (campus uni, church) and then visited the bowshooting once again. And, coolness beyond cool, I had the maximum! Woohooh!! Rocking rock rock!!
Okay, scoring maximum just means all arrows in the yellow, and the distance is maybe about 5 meters (or 10, I’m better at shooting arrows than at guessing distances ;-), but still. It’s the max score, and you get 6 points for max score whilst even only 1 point below that gets you 2 points (which can be exchanged for prizes)… so that’s still nice eeh? Of course, now I plan to go showing off to all visitors ;-)