Werner's Birthday

Today was a special day, as it was Werner’s birthday.

I had a few things planned, first I put chocolate and sweets in his handle bar bag, while he had a shower so before he started today’s ride he would find them and have some kind of present for his birthday. I needed to go to a bigger town to get Werner a better transistor radio that would pick up some stations so he can listen to at night in the van.

I had found a piece of cardboard that I needed to make a birthday sign several weeks ago and put it in the van. Werner wanted to know what I needed that bit of rubbish for, and I had a hard time trying to keep it.

I had brought some balloons the day before, so today all I had to do was drive several km ahead and tie them on a pole beside the road with my birthday sign, which I had to write on, no problem I thought.

Well this morning it was very cold and raining. Werner said not to go too far ahead in case the weather got really bad.

My plan did not turn out very easy at all. The pen would not write very well on my cardboard and the balloons I brought were nearly impossible to blow up. I blew up 1 ½ of the 6 and that was it.

The wind was blowing quite hard, so I had a lot of trouble to even get the sign to stay up as well as the balloons. Werner was not far away and I was sure, the rain would wash the words off before he got there.

Werner radioed me to see where I was and I could see him in the distance. So I jumped into the van and drove off before he saw what I was doing. I wanted it to look better but never mind the thought was there.

After Werner had finished today’s ride I organized for us to go out for lunch at a hotel and in the afternoon it would be coffee and cream cake. Also I was able to get Werner a radio.

To end off this day we booked into a motel to enjoy a few home comforts instead of being in the van.

But this was not the end of today, we even got to see our family at Allan and Corrina place by the use of a mobile video call, where a birthday tea and cake was organized to celebrate Werner’s birthday.