Party &Polterabend

Sunday afternoon and I am still not really top fit after celebrating with our neighbour her 50th birthday last night. It was an enjoyable evening; she had invited family friends and neighbours around to celebrate her birthday. The food was excellent and the beer was cool and from the barrel. The evening was quite a long one it started at five and we left at half past twelve being a little bit worse off for wear and tear.
Last weekend a young couple across the road from us had what they call here their Polterabend. (See link Polterabend) they had put up a notice in the surrounding houses letting the people know that it would be a loud on the evening. When I heard the first crockery being smashed I decided to go out and take a few photos of the event with intentions to put it in this post. After getting the permission from the bride to put the photos in the Internet the bridegrooms father came and asked me if I would like a drink to toast the bride and bridegroom on there forth coming marriage. Well, not wanting to offend anyone I said “yes”, he gave me a plastic cup ¾ full of Vodka!!! With a splash of Bitter Lemon in it. I had the feeling that the bride’s family were German immigrants from Russia from the sound of the dialect from one or two persons that I spoke to. Naturally, according to their custom there was plenty of Vodka flowing. After ten minutes and with still two thirds of the Vodka in my cup I discretely left not wanting to get involved in a family celebration. My wife and I drank the rest of the Vodka together. The weather situation over the last week has been, not to say the least unerträgich (unbearable) very very humid and HOT with temperatures over the thirty’s. On Friday afternoon we had a very bad thunderstorm with local flooding and large amount of damage caused through lightning. We were lucky but in some areas not to far from were we live they had up to 100 litres of rain per square meter causing severe road damage. It is still very humid and we have just come back from a walk with the dog and in the distance there is the sound of thunder and I have the feeling that we are in for another storm. On Tuesday I was at work for the day, nothing unusual took place; I spent most of the day at the desk writing up maintenance documents for the machines in the production. To round the week off I paid a visit to my dentist on Friday to have a filling seen to, nothing dramatic but never the less a necessity. Take care out there were ever you are. Tshüss The photos are of the Polterabend and the 50th birthday.