Three days to go...

We are flying to Hamburg on Friday morning, whoowhoo! We are staying through New Year's. How many Curry Sausages can one eat in 9 days? I'm determined to find out.

I didn't think I'd ever see this. Wouldn't have been too sad if I hadn't.

I had to scrape ice from my windshield this morning. No, wait... --- I would have had to scrape ice off my windshield this morning.

I don't own an ice scraper.

I live in California.

Thus I sat in the car for minutes, the heater turned up all the way, and stared at the iced windshield, in complete disbelief.

Didn't help much.

Undatable

You learn a lot about your friends when it comes to a Bachelor Party. Highs and lows of the participants' humor reveal themselves, taste and manners are put to the test, and in some cases the marital bliss of the newlyweds directly depends on the secrecy of the friends who attended the bachelor party...

Ed learned at his bachelor party that his friends are completely undatable. He couldn't convince a single girl to go on a date with Tobias, Denny, Dennis, Stefan or Torsten [= "Task 3"].

This failure had to be caused by his outfit as a "Good German on a saturday afternoon" [= "Task 1"], since his american charme is - as is generally known - absolutely mind-blowing! And his sausage sales to passersby [= "Task 2"] went smoothly after all. Thus - don't take it personal, guys.

Ed doesn't really trust me anymore ever since, by the way. The fact that I lured him into the bachelor party trap wears heavy on him. But the gorgeous day he had makes up for a lot.

All "Ed's Bachelor Party" pictures in my Flickr photo album.