Day 4 - Toddlers are slow

• This morning I went "horse watching" with Matthias as we live about 500 metres (~500 yards) from a horse racing track. Now that sounds pretty near, but Matthias walks very slowly, which is actually a euphemism. He stands very fast would be a more accurate description. "Slow" would imply a certain velocity which by definition is a physical value consisting of speed AND direction whereas his method of movement possesses neither of those properties. I have a theory that if you put enough toddlers into a room and tell them to go to the nearest grocery store they'd actually break the space time continuum and move backwards in time, unfortunately I've got only one specimen at my disposal so I cannot verify this conjecture. We eventually did arrive at the racing track after 35 minutes and he had a good time watching the horses. When we discovered some horse dung on the ground he asked what it was and when I explained it to him he was rather disappointed ... that there wasn't any dog turd. After watching the horses he paraded past all of them again shouting "bye bye horse" and waving to each of them. Going back home I decided to speed up the journey and carried him back on my shoulders. The downside to that was that he loves to play with your ear lobes while he is up there. Worst is that he also sticks his fingers into your ears as far as he can which felt like getting endoscopic brain surgery (in stereo). I am grateful his fingers are still quite short!
• In the afternoon the three of us took the train to Vienna and we went to the Museum of Natural History to check out some dinosaur skeletons. This was the first time I've been there since I was a kid and while Florian and Matthias both enjoyed the exhibits I found the whole experience quite creepy. The halls are very big, quite dark, rather empty (as it was during the week) and full with weird stuffed animals, skeletons and similar objects. So if you ever want to dare someone, try staying one night alone in there.
  
• Then we went to the Naschmarkt to buy some Jiaozi for Chinese New Year which'll be this Saturday! That was a cool experience since the number of Chinese people has gone up a lot since last time I was there. The supermarket we were in, had only Asian customers, everyone speaking Chinese and wishing each other a Happy New Year. We might finally get a little Chinatown here in Vienna.
• I don't miss work (yet).
• Lunch: leftovers, Dinner: Mc Donalds.