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Ok, I said I'd write more later but didn't get around to it yet... so here goes: We had an awesome time in London. It was great to see Nightfall again after such a long time. And my little Tiggerboy of course! We did some touristy things and generally enjoyed the amazing architecture and great weather in London (yes, we had terrific weather when we were there!). Many places were hopelessly crowded though, so the Dungeon and Madame Tussaud's were not as much fun as they could have been with less people around... it was still nice though. As always, there are pictures on my deviantArt account for you to enjoy.
We missed our plane to Hamburg on Tuesday though and the service guy said the next plane to Hamburg goes on Thursday! *panic* We just missed the check in by 7 freaking minutes! We were then able to get a flight to Dortmund though and Smaug was awesome enough to come and pick us up (it's about a 3 hour ride from Hamburg!). We barely made it into the airport in Dortmund though, they close at 10pm sharp! The plane arrived 5 to 10 and had to be hauled into the airport because it wasn't allowed to drive in anymore. We were then rushed through the passport check, grabbed our luggage and stood in front of a dark, locked airport in the middle of nowhere... it was somewhat freaky, being kicked out of an airport because it closes at night... it's not like Dortmund is a small town or anything... oh well, it was a little adventure and sure got my adrenalin levels up and running for days on end!
We were back at Nighti's place at 3 am and didn't go to sleep before 6. So after just a few hours of sleep we quickly got Tigger's London photos up and headed out for our trip to Wacken. We arrived at the festival grounds in the afternoon after a very relaxed ride through our tested and tried back country routes without encountering any traffic jams. We found our campground with the Iron Igels easily (as it was close to the reserved camp entrance) and set up our gigantic tent (a real castle this year, it was extremely comfortable!).
To cut things short, the festival was amazing but extremely crowded! Definitely more people than last year and more than twice as many people than there were in 2004 (40,000 people), which was my first year at Wacken. Other than that it was great fun again, though the camp seemed somewhat subdued this year, except for a few big laughs. Generally it was unusually quiet on our campground.
After surviving the biggest heavy metal festival in the world I then faced the hardest test of this vacation: family visits!  Naaaaaah, I had a great time seeing everyone again, spent a fun day with my brother, his girlfriend and my nephew at the Hamburger Dom, had a great family get-together with (almost) everyone on Friday and then headed over to Bonn to see my Dad on Saturday. Again, thanks to everyone who came to the train station to say good bye on Saturday morning, it was great to see you all again!
I then spent the last day in Germany with my Dad and his girlfriend, eating delicious steaks and playing a few rounds of Scrabble. As with everything else on this vacation, I didn't have enough time to spend. On Sunday I had to catch my flight back to Canada and it felt as if I had just arrived yet had to leave already.
I beat the jetlag by staying awake during my flight, thus being terribly tired by the time I arrived here and falling right into bed shortly before midnight. On Monday I did get tired around 10 already, but other than that I didn't have any problems adjusting back.
During my vacation I did realize that I had to do laundry twice within two weeks simply because I didn't have enough underwear. Admittedly, I had tossed out a big amount of old and tattered clothes just a few weeks before the vacation and I hadn't bought any new underwear in at least two years, so there wasn't much left. So, I took advantage of a big sale this weekend and treated myself to four new bras and eight new undies. It took two hours to find four bras that actually did fit me, how come they aaaall go to size C but only few go over that? Especially those fancy cute ones never get to the size that I need! I saw so many that looked terrific, but I didn't even bother trying them on, too small. Also, why are 90% of all bras padded now? I don't want padded cups! I don't NEED padded cups! My boobs are scary enough as they are, no need to make them look even bigger!  Oh well, I did eventually find some fitting ones that actually made my chest look good... or great even, if I may say so. Yep, I love em, makes me wonder why I waited so long to get new ones.
Aaaaand today I had my singing debut! We got together with the Vancouver 9/11 Truth Society and recorded the chorus line for a song supporting the Truth Bus and the March on Ottawa. We had a blast! It was so much fun chanting and singing and screaming. There'll be a video with shots from this recording session too, I'll link to it as soon as it goes online.
Ok, that's it from me for now. By the way, I got a new cell phone and thus a new number. So, if you need my new number, let me know! I *will* be sending out messages with my new number within the next few days, so you may want to wait until, say, Wednesday before bombarding me with inquiries about by new number though. Thanks and have a great week! I sure shall have one!
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