Dinner with Chris!

Disclaimer..

Hello everyone --
Anna here... I would just like to point out that Kate has been the main blogger over the past few days and things are going to change around here.. AKA: PAYBACK. No one needs to see pictures of me waking up -- because we all know that I am not a morning person! Everyone stay tuned for some quality pictures to come.

GUESS WHO?

Can you guess who this is??

Still not sure? Here's another clue...

Still don't know?
This might help:


PEEK-A-BOO!
That's right!
IT'S ANNNNNNNNNNNNA!

Zille Jazz

Anna and I started off our day meeting Chris for a coffee and later lunch. After doing a little stressful German grocery shopping,

we came back home and relaxed until the evening when we met up with Anita and Chris again for dinner and to visit a cute (but smokey) little bar where there was a band playing jazz.

Ready to hit the town....

But first....

The FLASHER!

This is why you can't wear high heels in Neustadt.

Experimenting with the night mode on Dad's camera.

I FINALLY get Anna to be in a picture :)

Ahhh...the choices.

With Anna and Anita. Here I am warning off predators* by showing my ownership over the two.

*Predators like this.

Anita was trying to convince somebody more fun than us to come in. She was successful in getting them in, but what she soon found out is that there is NOBODY more fun than us! Lesson learned...

The Residence Palace on Alaunstrasse

For those of you who have never been to visit me (shame on you!) here are some pictures of the apartment.

A view of the upper level.

From the north balcony.

The dinky little guest bathroom!

Looking down from the upper level.

Another view from the north balcony.

From the south balcony.

Slaving in the kitchen.

The only plants I can keep alive....for about 3 days.

Who needs London when you have Dresden?

Anna and I originally planned on going to London this week, but after looking at our bank accounts we both decided it would be wise to stay in Dresden and save a bit of cash...

So instead of going to Big Ben, Soho, Westend...(YAWN), we woke up late, didn't shower, and went for a walk through the streets of Dresden.

Lunch.

Anna's lunch.

She is clearly enjoying her lunch more than I did mine.

I feel asleep at the tram stop.

Just kidding. I would never fall asleep with all these thieves around.

When paparazzi turns on you....The diaries of DD celebrities.

We didn't realize when we first called the photographer from Total Exposure Ltd to take some pics of us looking hot that things would turn so quickly. It all seemed fine in the elevator. But immediatly when we got out, we were met by the hoards.

Paparzzi: "Kate, Kate! Tell us! Who's the new guy??? Are you guys an item??"

Kate: "Hey fellas! No comment, thank you!"
Kate (aside): I told you just to make us look hot. Now get lost.


Kate: Didn't you hear me??? I said GET LOST!

Chris: EEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

BUSTED!

Kate to Chris: It's no use, Chris. And now your chances of dating are ruined in DD. Let's go back to teaching.

Schoooooool's out for the summer!!!!!! Well at least for two weeks in October.

Right away after school on Friday, Anna and I boarded the Berlin Linien Bus for a groupie adventure that could only be considered blog-worthy. We made it to Berlin around 7pm and then had to find our hotel in Kreuzberg, a vibrant quarter of the city where our hostel was and where the band we were going to watch was playing.
(Navigating through the city...My inner compass was not working so well after a bottle of champagne...)

By the time we got to our hostel we only had about 20 minutes to find the concert venue and be there. So we downed a mini champange (I had to celebrate the fact that I was on vacation!!!) and changed our clothes and ran out the door. We ended up only staying a few blocks away from the club, so we made it in plenty of time. The band was great--it was so much fun to see them again---SUCH nice guys! and we ended up hanging around the club until the early hours. We finally made it back to our hostel and got a few hours of sleep before we needed to check out again.
(In the club)

(WOW!)
We met the boys for breakfast and coffee that afternoon before they needed to leave for their next concert in Magdeburg. Anna and I spent the rest of the afternoon walking around near the Hauptbahnhof in Berlin.

While enjoying a classy meal at McDonalds, Anna and I discussed our plans for the rest of the weekend. Then Anna mentioned how instead of getting a job for next year and doing something respectable for a living, she really just wanted to be a band groupie for the rest of her 20s.

Well, how could I let her dream die? We immediatly threw our burgers aside grabbed our sodas and ran to the ticket machine to buy a ticket on the next train to Magdeburg to follow the boys.

Everything was fine about the train...Except...My seat. I noticed my hair was sticking to something after about an hour and then. I. saw. this...:

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWw.

We finally made it to Magdeburg and the only information we had was where they band was playing. We had no hotel room, no directions, and no understanding of these strange people living in Magdeburg....If you have ever been there, you know what I mean.

We took a taxi to a hotel we thought might be close to the club. When we got there we found that they were totally booked and then we also found out that every other decent hotel in the city seemed to be booked. SOOOOO we ended up here:


Amazing. Look how happy that kitty looks.

We had a few hours to hang around the pension before we got a taxi to the club which was totally expensive, because not only were we staying in a pension that didn't get the memo that the wall fell, but we were also halfway across the city...
I am starting to understand the boyscouts better.

We finally made it to the club. An oasis in the abandoned industry park of Magdeburg! It helped restore our faith in M-town.

The cute boys

Super fan.

Why is there always something on MY seat?

Make-shift fan t-shirt.

After the concert and talking for a while, we took the eternal taxi ride back to the pension. We slept in late (because clearly no one else was staying there!), took our time getting ready, and finally made our slow way back home to Dresden.


We arrived in Dresden around 7 and then went straight over to Tom's place for a delicious dinner of lamb and mashed potatoes.

When we got home at around midnight, we were thoroughly exhausted from our fun, crazy weekend.

Let the adventures continue.............