Schnitzel & Sch**ße

Magnet #1260 - Deutschland

The last time I was in Germany, there were two of them. That's right. That's how old I am.

Eventually I must go back...to see the other side of the non-Iron Curtain, specifically Berlin and Dresden for their architecture, plus a couple of other towns.

As high schoolers running rampant, we certainly had a blast in West Germany, learning how to eat schnitzel (which I loved) and learning how to say shit in Germany, (scheiße, which I also loved saying, much to the boy's utter dismay), and learning about how one shouldn't just plug in hair appliances into wrong electrical sockets...or one doesn't get to do one's hair due to melting appliances (which I did not love).

Oops.

I haven't figured out how my friend living in Singapore got me a magnet from Germany, but really, who cares - what a cool magnet from Germany! Thanks!

Roll out the barrel...

Magnet #7 - ChickNStein, Germany

No, not really a place name. This one's arguably one of my more attention-getting magnets. A friend of mine brought it back from her trip to Germany.

But how weird and funny is this magnet. Like, who designed it? Had to have been a guy - I mean who else would want to smoosh together a woman and a beer stein. Sheesh, I'd hate to see the boy version of this one.

That guy probably went to one too many Oktoberfests.

Sadly, I've only done the ones at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, and EPCOT in Orlando.

Even sadder, the last time I was in Germany, there were still two of them. I was in West Germany, performing with a band in Berchtesgaden, just below Hitler's Eagle's Nest. The memories are hazy, but I remember mountains and a lake cruise. And apple schnapps. But that's another story.