Prague pics and a good good story

Hey!
It's been awhile.... Nothing has happended.... Well, thats not entirely true, I started a new job as a sales rep. with CMA Medico. That is all going very well, so I wont bore you with that. I wanna bore you with a nice story from this year's holiday exhibition at Bella Centeret in Copenhagen. As some of you might remember - I won two r/t tickets from Copenhagen to Amsterdam when I attended last year, by throwing a paper plane through a tiny hole in a role-up-screen. This year I signed up for Lufthansas Miles and More, and guess what I won? I won the first prize which was two r/t tickets from Copenhagen to Los Angeles!!! I could't and still can't believe it. I called Lufthansa today and they were willing to change our flights to our original plan which is to fly Copenhagen-Chicago and San Francisco-Copenhagen, without a surcharge... NICE! So I guess, I got myself a free trip. Some people call me lucky, but hey, last year's competition did require a bit of aiming skills... he he
Anyways, enjoy the pics from my trip to Prague in the fall last year with the boys.
My travel plans fro 2008 include:
-England for 3 days (work)
-Barcelona for 4 days (with the phily boys to see FC Barcelona-Valenicia at Nou Camp)
-USA (one month, Chicago,Watertown, Las Vegas and California)
-Munich (Octoberfest with the boys)
I do consider myself very lucky.
To check up on our Prague tales click here

Into the wild....

My days are filled with Eddie Vedder's new solo album "Into the wild", I practically listen to it all the time, whether I'm on the bus, walking home, working out - it doesn't matter... This album is outstanding! If you are at all into the good sing-a-song writer style - buy it!!!

The album is actually a soundtrack from the film by Sean Penn, also called "Into the wild" which is a true story based on a guy from a weathy unhappy family. Once he graduates from college he burns all his money and gives away all his stuff, and just leaves to live in the wild in Alaska. The film will be in the Danish movietheaters from November 30th... So if you're too stingy to buy a great album, you can always just listen to the tunes while watching what a think will be an awesome movie in the theater.

Also, I found some great pics online from the Pearl Jam concert I went to in Copenhagen 4 months ago..

Check 'em out here

A long walk on a long wall, and a nasty true story

Back from Prague and China!!! I guess I can start out saying it was two entirely different trips!!
At least they can speak english in Prague...
Let me start out with Prague - The boys were great. Funny moments, like when I woke up the first morning cause I heard someone whispering around in my room - it was Nick headed towards the window, I followed him with half an eye open and a massive headache from the previous night's drinking. He pulls the curtain aside, turns and looks at me: "Nice amigo, now we're in goddamn Bucharest!". WHAT??? Dude, we're in Prague! Well, my laughing definitely cleared my headache...ha ha. As you can imagine we didn't do much besides drinking in Prague. 4 days of straight fun with the boys. This wont be the last time I will leave to conquer a European capital with the boys!

Two weeks later I left for Beijing with Mary and her parents. I must say this has by far been my greatest culture shock ever! Never ever have I come across a more, withdrawn people than the Chinese. They have no desire getting to know you and they are NASTY!!! However it was a HUGE experience in both good and bad. Walking the Great Wall is something everyone must do at some point in their life. Beijing in general is a very interesting place to visit, however the Chinese do not and I mean they do not speak a single word of English. I am very worried about them hosting the Olympics next year… Shanghai however is not a place I would recommend visiting. It is very dirty and crowded, with very little sights to offer. I guess you can say I was rather disappointed, it is just another western metropolis unlike Beijing which still has some Chinese culture left. It’s a bit sad, cause the Chinese have an old saying that goes like this – “In order for the new stuff to get here, the old stuff must go”. This means that they are tearing down their charming small hutongs (I have included a picture in the link below), so they can build new highrisers.
Like I said the Chinese are Nasty, and I will finish my post off with a true story from the trip.

One morning at our hotel in Shanghai, I felt like getting buzzcut so I went down to the barbershop in the hotel. I arrived 5 min before they opened, so I waited until the barber came 5 min later. He showed me to the chair and I started explaining how I wanted my head buzzed. He didn’t speak a word of English even though he worked at a hotel, so I pointed at the buzzcutter and moved my hand over my head while making a buzzing sound. He smiled as if he understood what I wanted done. Then he opens his cabinet and pulls out a toothbrush and starts brushing his teeth in the sink where he also washes people’s hair before giving them a haircut. He has no clue that he at this point is reaching my limits at a rather fast pace. I just sat there staring at him, then started spitting down in that same sink! And when I say spitting I mean spitting, it sounded as if he was coughing all the intestines he probably had for dinner the night before up all over the sink. I could just imagine all the snot floading around in the sink. So I got up looked at him and said “Nevermind”!, and went out to the elevator. He walked after me, and there he was looking at me as the elevator doors closed between us – with a face expression revealing that he had absolutely no clue why I had left an no longer wanted a haircut…..
I hope you enjoyed my little story as I am laughing typing it.

To see the pics from China click here

Praha and the long lost wedding pics

Am I a lazy s.o.b???

Most people would certainly say yes to that question, including myself... but nevertheless - I am back to say: "I am out of here in less than 48 hours"!

Going to Prague with the boys, we leave thursday morning and return on sunday afternoon. Our agenda in Prague: ahh, I better keep that to myself..he he. But the lord knows we ain't going down there to look at churches :=)

However, I will post pictures so you can see for yourselves what went on down there... I can assure you tough.....it invloves a few beers... Our first mission is to find a sportsbar that has Sweden-Denmark on live... We have some unfinished business that needs to be settled from the game 2 months ago in Copenhagen, where we came back from 0-3 to 3-3 before an insane stupid lame Danish idiot (who by the way lives in Sweden) decided to storm the pitch and assault the ref which obviously resolved in a 0-3 defeat even though they were in the bag. What a game, and what a horrible tragic outcome to the best soccergame I ever saw....

Also, I finally got around to post some pics from my sisters wedding 3 months ago....

Well, have fun while I'm having fun in Praha....

To check out the wedding pics click here

Vacation September....

Hey everybody,
Just thought I'd brag a bit about my upcomming vacation plans...
I leave for Prague with the boys (Nick, Travolta, Doctor Stein, Daniel Dr. Jimenez, Daniel B., and Christian). We leave Copenhagen on September 6th at 8.15 a.m. To keep our traditions from previous similar trips going we've decided to go out on Copenhagen the night before for drinks etc. at our local bar "McKluuds" before crashing at Nick's house....That flight is going to suck!!!!

I guess my Prague trip with my boys can be interpreted as a warm-up trip to the major highlight of this summer/fall - CHINA!!! Yep, Mary and I have accepted an invitation from her parents to join them on their trip to China. We leave for Beijing sometime around the 23rd of September, where we will stay for 5 days. Then we're taking the train to Shanghai where we will stay for about 5 days as well. Can't wait, I'll be eating dogs, a fried pig's ass, froglegs and maybe even a few cockroaches.... nice!

Well, I'll post pics from Signes wedding in May, I promise Val!!!

Later folks....Forza FCK

Metallica was here...

Nice nice nice... but if I ever come across that dumbass who pulled the plug 10 min into the concert I don't know what I'll do to him!

This was my 2nd Metallica concert - my first Metallica concert was in Milwaukee 10 years ago when I was an exchange student in the US. I gotta say, these guys sure know how to crank it up still. I don't think I've ever played the air guitar this much at any concert. They played all the old stuff - but especially "Fade to Black" was amazing!

But like I started out mentioning, the speakers lost the sound 3 songs into the concert, it was horrible, but I gotta say Mr. Hetfield came out with the coolest comment on it afterwards: "Sorry about the little intermission folks, Lars' make-up was running so we had to go backstage for a little while....I meen He's gotta look good for his people!".

The beer was once again very cold, and the weather was amazing, what more could you want. My corncert tour is over now - Justin warmed up, Pearl Jam almost made me cry, and Metallica sealed it all off perfectly.... I am a bit sad though, cause I am not sure if this really was my last time at a PJ or Metallica concert... we'll see...

Hope all is well....

This is how we say goodbye in Seattle....

I am still Alive......but it's gonna take awhile to digest last nights performance from Pearl Jam... What a concert, it was one of those nights where everything just fell into the right place. The venue, the crowd, the setlist, Stone's guitar solos and not but least - Eddies vocal, was absolutely AMAZING... The concert at Madison Square Garden 4 years ago rocked, but last night sure did as well. Climax for me came during "Alive" and "Black" both songs from the debut album "Ten". Eddie gave a long fine speech on the band's feelings on being back in DK after the tragedy at Roskilde Festival in 2000. Stone Gossard's guitar solos was once again outstanding, and I must say "Yellow Ledbetter" once again proved to be the perfect song to end an outstanding concert, just like at Madison Square Garden 4 years ago. Eddie's final statement before playing the final tune "Yellow Ledbetter": "This is how we say goodbye in Seattle!"