Micha and Tim get married – 18th August 2007

Here you have it. After weeks of exciting stuff, a holiday in the sun and another weekend away my body has obviously decided to stick up a finger and tell me to get lost.I am in true snotty monster conditions with a really bad flue and not a happy bunny. Whether it was divine intervention, some weird germ I picked up on my travels or simple body reaction I don’t really care….I do not ever want to have to pass a day like yesterday ever again. In case you’re wondering, yes I do like a good old moan – especially if I’m sick. Should it get too boring, you always have the option of scrolling down Where was I? Oh yes, yesterday…. after Micha’s and Tim’s wedding celebration (more of that a little later) I went to bed with a slight sore throat which in my modest opinion was due to singing along to way too many german Schlager songs, and not only. Sunday morning comes along, I am even awake at 10.30…but can hardly move. Every single bone in my body must have been switched to complete rebellion, once I start shivering it hits me…oh, please…no. It’s definitely not a hangover, that feels completely different, it could only be the more advanced stage of a full-on flue. Ahead of me I had: 1. getting up and packing, 2. breakfast with whoever managed to appear, 3. a 3 hour drive from Bremen to Duesseldorf, 4. a 1 1/2 hour flight back to London ( PLUS waiting time at the gate) 5. a half an hour waiting time at Heathrow for the luggage and 6. half an hour journey home. I’ll keep this short: it was a NIGHTMARE.

Anyways, considering that my day has been extremely boring and mostly spent with sleeping trying to get better, I should really focus on the event that I had the pleasure attending: Micha’s and Tim’s wedding in Bremen. Once again I found myself at Heathrow airport on a Friday afternoon following usual procedure. Once I found a queue that wasn’t 50 m long it suddenly hit me that the annoying bell like noise I heard over the speakers was indeed the fire alarm. Great! Fire Alarm & Evacuation at Heathrow Terminal 1 and me in the middle of it. The part I found most amusing was the voice over the speakers advising travellers to ” follow staff instructions” …rrrrright…. the were plenty of yellow-wested individuals standing around, but not a single one was telling us where to go. At least I crossed the street, while most of the travellers were standing in front of the main doors and that was that. Fire brigade arrived in slow motion ( the first one) – obviously not in a rush, second one arrived shortly afterwards with a decisevly faster pace and a few of their men stormed the building ( once they fought their way through the waiting people…).

I can pretty much tell what you are thinking right now. Why on earth would I want to take a random picture of a fire engine in front of an airport. Easy to answer: I like fire engines (no, really!), I was bored out of my mind and everybody else was doing it. So I told myself, why not? Something to put on the blog, otherwise you won’t really look at it ever again.

20 minutes later (in which obviously nobody told us what was going on and nobody even tried to move the individuals in front of the main doors) very low voices starting appearing to instruct staff to re-enter the airport. Considering my flight was scheduled to leave 1 hour and 20 minutes later I made my way there as well and rightly enough was almost in the front of a queue 2 minutes later. We still had a 30 minute delay though….

In Dusseldorf Bert was already waiting with his little red Spider (Alfa Romeo), ready to hit the road and reach Bremen as soon as possible. Considering that we lost the oil cap at a certain point on the highway and had to improvise a pit stop and a repair we did reasonably well and arrived at the Hotel where a big group was already celebrating around 10.30pm. Big cheers, hello and a couple of pints ( they actually serve smaller measures there…) later the atmosphere was definitely chilled out and we were all looking forward to the big day.

Micha and Tim got married in the main cathedral in Bremen which is an absolutely amazing location. A small coughing fit from my end caused a few stirrs as I somehow managed to get that going during their vows. Could it get more embarassing? Yes. After the first offer of a Tic Tac from the blond lady diagonally on my left in front of me ( try to get a Tic Tac out of its box without making a noise AND suppress further coughing instincts…) I got offered another weird coloured candy shortly afterwards from another guest sitting behind us. I was purple of embarassment and tried to ignore the evil looks from another gentleman. Oh well…at least the bride and groom where not at all mad when I apologised at a later stage. Thinking about it, could that have been the first sign of the flue that was about to hit me?? I doubt it…

Here they are, the happy couple in front of the Bremer Dom with their families after the ceremony.

That lovely bride’s bouquet got thrown into the crowd of single women shortly afterwards, and you may attempt a total random guess about who caught it….yes, little me. Not that surprising really…I seem to have a tendency to catch them, it’s now the 2nd in 2 years. Hooray.

A short time later we were making our way to the Stadtpark where the wedding reception would take place. It was a gorgeous sunny day and everyone was in true party spirit. I can only say that in my opinion we had the coolest car of the entire wedding party… nothing beats a little red Spider!!! Anyways, here is a selection of a few random pictures.

We LOVE pink ties!!!

We had a lovely Reception, sit-down dinner and dance afterwards until early hours of the morning. Julia and her boyfriend Stefan even re-composed a little song which we helped out performing as background singers and we managed not to make total fools of ourselves. Well, the biggest compliment obviously goes to those two, as they did all the writing and ultimately Stefan who did most of the singing I hope to receive some more pictures that may even show the lovely surroundings…my little camera wasn’t really performing to standard.

The happy couple is now chilling on a beach in Greece enjoying their honeymoon. Voices whisper that they didn’t even make it to their honeymoon suite and instead left straight away to the airport. Good for them, it just confirms what I already think: it was a glorious event!!!!

I am back off to sleep now, my medicine is kicking in….best of greetings to everyone and to those who were present this weekend I can only say: Spider-pig!!!

Tine x