Oktoberfest!?!?

So I'm usually not the most spontatneos guy. Maybe it is the engineer in me, but I like to have a plan. When, where and how I'm going?

But Wednesday evening, Alvaro came up and said 'Come on Logan, let's go to Munich for Oktoberfest' Why Not!

So saturday morning we rented a Volkswagen Pasat and took off, 1300 km to Munich! For all those that have heard rumors about the Autobahn in Germany and no speed limit...I can no attest first hand how true it is! There is three lanes, the slow lanes is usually around 120-140km/hr, the middle lane 140 - 160, and the fast lane...wow! I swear there were some cars passing us at atleast 220, maybe 240km/hr.

12hrs later at 10pm we arrived in Munich. After that long in the car I was having some doubts whether or not the trip was worth it. That feeling didn't take long to leave, as we rode the train into the center we met a group of middle aged Germans and we sang songs the whole ride in. And they gave each one of us some official souviners, so great!

Unfortunately by the time we got into Oktoberfest it was 11pm and the stop letting people into the beer tents. So that was a bit of a downer, but we rode some roller coasters, ate some bratwurst and headed into the center. We eventually took the 4am U-bahn back to the car, but we missed our stop and had to wait another hour until we finally got home....home being sleeping in the car. That was a great sleep!

So you have to be at the beer tents before 11am or you won't have a seat...well we didn't make it. So it took us over an hour to finally grab a seat as someone else was leaving. Let the fun begin!. We spent the next 6hrs drinking 1 litre beers, eating roasted chicken and meeting people. We said Prost with the young, the old, Germans, italians, hungarians. All day we looked for people dressed in the traditional dress and got our pictures taken with them.

By 5pm we went out and tried to ride some more roller coasters....which was quite the experience given our state. However, I played one of the games and shot a perfect 12 for 12 with the BeBe gun, and won a nice little prize.

Eventually by 8pm we were back in another beer hall as the band was beginning. For the next four hours we proceeded to dance on top of the tables, more Prost with the locals, met some cute German girls :-), tons more pictures with everyone. Simply a great great time!

Tons of more, smaller, funny stories. But I can't write them all. Hopefully I'll get some pictures up here soon but i'll add a couple samples (i took like 200 haha)

The ride home was tiring...there was an accident on the autobahn so we were parked for 2.5hrs...little setback. So it was a one day trip, drive saturday, party sunday and back home by monday night! Crazy!

Happy Birthday to Me

Post is a little late, due to the events taking place in the post above :-)

So my first birthday away from home was pretty good! Actually it got stretched over three days!

Wednesday night, as usual, we went to the Student House for student night. We stayed until after midnight so they sang me Happy Birthday when the clock struck midnight!

Thursday was still my birthday and Humbert's last day at the Kollegium before going back to Barcelona. So we convinved the bar in the kollegium to open up for a 'special occasion.' So we had another party and I got another Happy Birthday song. It was good times, but sad to see yet another leave the Kollegium.

Friday, my Japanese friend Nori, said he would make Sushi for my birthday! Well word got around and soon we had 20 people who wanted to eat Japanese sushi. So Nori and Alvaro, Sergi, Iva, Kenny and myself helped prepare in the evening and we all ate Sushi friday night. Villa brought be by a birthday cake as well, so I got yet another Happy Birthday song. A lot of fun!

Thanks to all those that sent me their best wishes either via this site or through e-mail. It is much appreciated. Unfortunately my phone didn't ring all day....but thats ok.

23 yrs old...where did the time go!

My Phone Number

Hey, just wanted to say I now have a phone at work. The number is
(+45) 96 35 9946 forty five is the country code.

I'm usually at work from 8:30am - 4pm or there abouts.
Thats 12:30am - 8am for those of you back in Alberta.

Just thought i'd post that...has nothing to do with the fact my birthday is in two days and someone might want to call me...for some reason or another....that's Thursday the 21st....of September.

Logan

Boat Races, Goodbyes and Goals!

Wow, so that was a packed weekend! I'll try to keep this post short.

Friday - What a day to leave my camera at home! So I got to witness the Danish boat races. Unfortunately I can't describe it. For one, I missed the opening and two, the commentary was in Danish. But it sorta looked like capture the flag...with kegs as the flag. And it took place in the 4ft deep lake in the middle of university. There were rafts made out of beer cans and duct tape as well as regular inflatable rafts. Oh and there were people dressed up as pirates!! Thats about all I can say..wish i had my camera!

Friday was also Mexico's Independance Day and turns out there are a lot of Mexicans in Aalborg! And of course since Aalborg isn't that big, any word of a party and we're all there. So some 200 odd people crammed into this dorm's common room and we shouted Viva la Mexico all night! Good times!

Friday was also the last day for the two French Girls! They were two of the people I've gotten to know the best over the past six weeks. We had a lot of good times, I taught them some 'Canadian' english and they taught me a teeny bit of French. It's wierd. When I say goodbye to friends at home, it's not too bad cause I know for sure I will see them again. But I don't know if I will ever see these two again, so it makes it harder. But I like to think that sometime, someday, either I will be in France or they will be in Canada. So I say, until next time.

Saturday - Finally a soccer game gone right! We were playing a good team near the top of the division, but luckily for me, their weakness was a slow defence. I ended up getting four breakaways in the game. I scored one, put one off the post and the other two were partially stopped but then finished for goal by two of my teamates. We ended up winning 4-3 and I got the 'Man of the Match' which was pretty cool, FREE BEER!

Thats about it. THe rest of the weekend was pretty boring! I wonder how the Chili Peppers' concert was Sun? Anybody go?

Logan

Where's my George Foreman?

Ok, so Megan got me going on this idea that acquiring a George Foreman would be perfect! All I have in the dorm here is a junky stove and a either a 'small' oven or a 'large' toaster oven depending on your view. So a George Foreman grill would be grand! I could nicely grill my steaks and my chicken breasts. Get some good ol grilled veggies on there, life would be good. So I set out on my quest to find one....not so easy.

So immediately I checked my good friend EBAY. Unfortunately, to ship a George Foreman from North America isn't exactly cost friendly. So i switched to EBAY UK. Great! They got tons of them...except for some reason everyone in the UK will only ship to the UK. Son of a gun!

Next I try Amazon UK. They ship books and movies all over Europe and for cheap shipping prices to. Whoops

Large electrical items are televisions that exceed a certain size restriction and can only be delivered to mainland UK

Where else to look... ah hah! Ebay Germany!! One problem, all of the pages are in German...who'd a thunk? Well luckily Google Translator has come to the rescue. So thats where i am now. Watching prices on EBAY Germany using Google Translator. But it's still hard to find ones that are willing to ship all the way across one border to Denmark!

I'll keep you updated. Meanwhile if anyone else knows a distributor of the George Foreman Grill here in Europe, pass it my way!

Logan

Robbie and Jessica's Wedding

- 47 hours of travel
- 6 connections in airports
- 6689.30 km (in a straight line)
- 7hrs worth of delays
- 7 movies watched
- 1 bag lost in transit
- 8hrs time change
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Being at Robbie and Jessica's Wedding = Priceless


You know it is always a special time when one of your best friends get married. But it's really special when it's two of you best friends getting married to each other. Such was the case this weekend. The wedding of Rob Woitas and Jessica Spinks. I've known Robbie since junior high when we played soccer together however we didn't become really good friends until high school. That is because in junior high I went to another school, St. Lukes, and that is where I met Jessica. It always amazes me how fast we became friends. All we had in common was that we shared the same hour long bus ride home, but that was enough. She was one of those friends that would always let me know what she thought, even if it wasn't exactly what I wanted to hear but what I needed to hear. And I'll always cherish that.

It wasn't until after high school that Damien and I helped bring the two together. A night at the pool hall and the start of something special. The rest is history.

The wedding went off without a hitch and was a lot of fun. I'm sure I'll be remembered for my enthusiastic singing of the birdy song since the band wasn't able to play it. I also think I dropped Kyley a couple of times trying a flip on the dance floor...whoops. All in all an amazing weekend!!! But I never want to do that much travel in that short of time span again :-)

Here's to you Robbie and Jessica!

Welcome to European Soccer

Well I made a good first impression at my first European soccer game..... I got red carded out of the game. But more on that later.

So there is definitely some differences playing soccer...or I guess I should say football. Obviously the level here is higher. Playing in the third highest division back in Edmonton corresponds to about the 3rd lowest division here in Denmark.

But the game is...well rougher. There is a lot more clutching and grabbing, little tugs on the jersey all that stuff. Same with when you have the ball, they will literally go through you to get the ball, everyone fights very hard for the ball. Even worse is trying to win a 50-50 ball. They won't hesitate to lower a shoulder, give a push, anything to gain the advantage. So all this sort of stuff frustrates me, but I guess I have to get used to it. The ref's let it all go....well not all of it.

So my first game went about as bad as a game can go, without me breaking something *knock on wood* It started off pretty close, my job was the usual to 'stretch' the defence with some speed and it was working but no goals. Unfortunately there team had the same plan but they had one guy who killed us. Scored 4 breakaway goals in the first 30 mins. So I went back on defence to cover him. It sorta worked until the end of the first.

Second half, about 10mins in, I was trying to get the ball from a guy and he threw a pretty wicked elbow and caught me in the lip, so I gave him a little one handed shove as I went for the ball. Well that was it! He red carded both of us. Wasn't deserved, but what can you do.

After that the flood gates opened and the final score was 15-0...or something, i lost track. There one guy scored 10 goals i think. I haven't been beat like that...well ever. Brutal!

So that it. Gotta sit out a couple games now. Oh well

Logan