Day 5 - Men's dream

• Here's what happened this morning: After dropping Florian at nursery I went to this place I was invited to. Basically it was quite a big room, dimly lit, lots of seats and some comfy mattresses on the floor. They served drinks and some snacks. When I entered I was the only man in a room full of women dressed in kinky costumes. There were witches, doctors and nurses. Some were taking pictures of each other, some others were playing with toys, not all of which I could identify. I swallowed, sweated and was quite nervous as it was my first time in such an establishment. But that's what paternity is like I thought, ... my first time at our local moms and todds and it was children's Mardi Gras. Fortunately all the other mums were very nice and gave me a warm welcome, so officially I'm now a mum as well I guess. Matthias felt poorly, so he didn't leave me even an inch all morning and he didn't like his costume (a clown's hat) at all, but we still had a good time. Originally I wanted to dress as a monster (and yes, I would have needed a mask for that!), but since all the kids were aged two or less I decided for a less scary costume - a simple moustache - which then fell off after 10 minutes. The noise level with so many toddlers is also rather high, which I guess is the original reason why decibels are measured logarithmically as it would be impossible to fit that loudness into a linear scale.
  
• Florian also had a fancy dress party at his nursery. If you are five years old then costume choice is very easy. Basically if you are a girl then you join "The Pink Cloud" which is quite similar to the Borg collective from Star Trek except that its style is pink instead of grey, dark cyberpunk and consists of fairies and princesses. But the rest, you know the whole "we will assimilate you" or "resistance is futile" stuff, is pretty much the same. Since Florian is a boy he dressed as Batman and joined the Justice League.
• Matthias has invented a new way to torture people: He tries to force his fingernails under yours (i.e. between your finger and the nail). I'm not sure but I think that's quite similar to what the Viet Cong did, except they used bamboo.
• In the evening I got time off and went to Vienna to play some billiards with a friend.