more crazy fans
smaller stadium by normal standards, and totally sold-out
after game victory walk with exchanged jerseys

flag ceremony
Kevin Kuranyi after his shot on goal went wide
run Forrest run!
Germany's #1 Goalie- Jens Lehmann
that is more like it...

Die-hard scary fan.
coming onto the field for warm-up We are so hapeeeeeeeee to be here.
national flags, and players on jumbo screen as they enter field
National Anthems

Abenteurs

I have been receiving harassing emails because I have not updated in awhile. For those guilty people - you know who you are- there are laws against that, you know. I have been operating (apparently mistakenly) according to the theory that nobody reads the blog because there are never any comments on it. Oops. tut mir leid.

I also apologize to the person who was upset(you know who you are) that I did not buy a disposable camera when I was in Vienna, because I had forgotten my digital one. So I don't have any pics to share from Vienna, sorry! It is pretty there, but come see for yourself.

Life has not been dull. I have had some interesting episodes i.e. like a bat getting into my bedroom one evening and waking me up because it was well... fluttering around me. Can we say ick? I would like to say that I handled the situation calmly and coolly. But actually I ran into my bathroom grabbing the phone on the way and hid in there until a friend came to pick me up. It was 2 in the morning. Oh yeah..I called my mom too. pathetic. That led to another episode with a rabies scare which I will spare you from reading. I still open closet doors and jump back really fast just in case Dracula is lurking in there.

I have also learned over the last few weeks while I have been hopping around the continent (yes, LOTS of it was work related ok?!?) that I am not made for one of those jobs where you have to travel a lot. I love living overseas, LIVING being the key word here, not traveling all the time. But please forgive me for sounding like I am complaining. It has been really tiring spending one night in Belgium, one night at home, the next night in Koeln, and the next five in Vienna, and so on. But there is not anywhere else in the world that I would rather be then where I am at now. Go God. Thanks for letting me be here.

Last weekend Miss Smith and I trained to Nurnberg for a National Mannschaft spiel. The German National football (soccer) team was playing a Euro 2008 qualifying game against a small island named San Marino. The available A-Mannschaft (the best players) who are uninjured were playing and that is not an opportunity to pass up. These guys play for some of the best football (soccer) teams in the world.

It was fun, except for the creepy hotel room experience, and it helped me to be ok with the fact that the new Bundesliga (german football (soccer) league) season doesn't start again until August 10th - that and I can watch re-runs of the games on Arena) We were expected to win against San Marino, which we did -6:0 which is a massacre by football (soccer) standards. Unfortunately I was so wrapped up in the game that I did not get many good shots during the game, I will have to raid Miss Smith's camera for that. The pictures are kindove out of sequential order. I haven't posted in so long I forgot how to post pictures right. :-)