We actually had a good "quote of the day" way back in Zadar, Croatia. It wasn't by one of the crew but the late middle aged man was from Toronto so he was practically one of us. "I can't wait to get back to Canada and have an ice cold Canadian and a pack of Du Maurier king sized." Hahaha, this guy loves all things Canadian I guess.
Innsbruck, July 27, 2008. It's noon, I've got a cough, the day started sunny and we had breakfast, shortly after that the clouds rolled in, again; avoiding rain today is going to be a chore. What am I writing? This needs to stop.
Last night Jen and I went out to a New Orleans styled outdoor concert that was the culmination of of the weekends New Orleans festival. It was pretty fun, there was one very Austrian man in the band that was actually from New Orleans and they rocked out. But that wasn't the really fun part. Jen and I rode up to one of the several bars available at the event and ordered two of their finiest draft beers. Jen received hers first and after what was about 15 seconds of waiting for mine I look over and see beer flying in the direction of the man waiting behind Jen, then a funny surprised look on the face of that very same man. Jens right side is drenched in beer, her cup is overturned and her head is down because she is embarassed at how much beer she has just spilled all over everywhere and -- this is gold -- because she has gotten beer in her eye and it stings. At this point I'm pretty sure I laughed but I don't really remember. The bartender brought over my beer and saw Jen in all her beer covered glory and said "she was thirsty." He then promptly brought over a full glass and winked at me, I'm pretty sure he liked me. That was really the highlight of the night for me. Jen felt it as a different kind of highlight I think but at any rate we both had a good time.
The night before this we were in Vienna, the "supermodel" of european cities enjoying a nice outdoor, bigscreened opera. I'll write about that another time but I will say it was a treat.
mark.
3 comments:
Nothing like being the rowdy, loud and embarassing Canadian. Sorry Canada. Innsbruck didn´t even know what hit it.
And it did sting. I will not recommend pouring beer into one´s eye in the future.
ouch. who knew? mark - can't wait to see you when you get back so soon!
last day!? sad times... but on the plus side, that's a heck of a manly photo of you, mark.
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