Some of my friends are playing in a tournament this weekend in Bolzano,Italy ....good luck Rainman All-Stars !!! In 2008 i started a 5 week trek through Europe by heading to Stuttgart to meet my friend Nate (he is actually an American living with his grandparents) , i met Nate in Singapore the year before :) The first part of my trip was Germany ....playing hockey in Pforzheim . During my stay with Nate everything was calm and very relaxing even spending a day going to school with Nate .
The main reason i went to Europe though was to play hockey and for that i had to meet up with Rainer , and when we met up the party started !!!! Rainer picked me up in Alberhausen on a rainy night , and we went to Aalen where he lives ( my first time in Aalen ) . On the ride i told him i wanted to go out for drinks and he was gung ho , so our first stop on my adventurous first night with Rainer was at the Irish Pub around the corner from his house . We started off nice and slow having a beer each and then i started to buy us shots of Jaegermeister ( little did i know that this is a major trigger for party Rainer to come out) , shot after shot and next thing you know we make a couple friends at the bar ( just random people) . The bar is closing but one of the randoms knows of an after hours bar ...so we go !
Now we are supposed to meet one of Rainers friend Rudi on the ride to Austria tomorrow morning , just an afterthought LOL. The after hours was totally dead just the 4 of us but at least there is booze ! I have no clue what the heck goes on next but all of a sudden i am at the after hours with some new random people that i don't know and Rainer is gone . In my drunken stupor i decide that i know the way back to Rainers place , so into the morning rain i leave the bar . It is roughly 730 AM and i am now lost , sitting on a corner in the rain watching people go to work ...yes shitty ! With my cellphone in hand i call Kathleen back in Toronto ( she stayed home for first part of this trip ) . So it's like 1 or 2 AM in Toronto and she answers as i reluctantly called her " what's wrong ?" , "i'm lost!" ......so i talk her into going online opening my email , getting address for Rainer , and Mapquesting my way to his house from the intersection i was at LOL! WHEN i arrive at Rainers house i knock on the door and his father ( who has never met me) answers the door ( oh and does not speak English ) , basically i just walked right by him and up the stairs . I wonder what he thought LOL !
Rainer shows up not too long after and is just as confused as i am . But he know where that shoebox full of mini Jaeger bottles is , and drink drink drink ....it must have been around 10 AM and at this point we were belligerent and Rainer was just tossing empty bottles out of his window from his bed . Well you can see where this is going , with his last toss he hits the window and cracks it ....not too sure how he explained that to his parents but i am sure he did ! Totally piss drunk i fall asleep texting people in Canada ....the day after we start our trip to Austria , what a messed up day that was .
These are old stories , i am just reminiscing ....
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