Today’s program:
This is the only port call that we hadn’t already arrived at when we woke up, so it made for a nice leisurely morning. Bob and I had been getting up at 6 or 6:30 every day, so this was nice.
Bob participated in the 10:00 Trivia with Paula activity, while I worked on my blog. Our friend Ken was the winner!
I found this trivia question most interesting:
Who are the only 3 people in the world who can travel without a passport?
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The emperor and empress of Japan & King Charles.
Neither of us participated in the Crazy Gold or the Bike Tour activities.
After lunch, I took the Walking Tour of Passau, while Bob stayed on the riverboat.
Might I remind you that we’re traveling with a group of about 40 gay men? For some queer reason, the majority of the guys in our group gravitated toward this tour guide, Ugur from Istanbul, out of the 6 guides available.
Two funny things with regards to Ugur:
- In telling us how safe this city is, he told us that once he went away for two weeks and forgot to lock his bicycle. When he got back it was still there, and it had a note on it that said, “This bike is too cheap to steal.” (He suspects it was actually a friend of his that put it there.)
- We’d just passed the courthouse, where he’d told us that they get 2 chances to pass the bar here, and if you fail the second time, you can’t retake it. A few minutes later, a lady holding a bouquet came running toward him, they seemed to be celebrating, speaking in German, and then he said, “This is my friend, and she just passed the bar! It was her second chance, so it was critical that she pass. It seems like she’s been studying for 10 years straight for this.” There were cheers and applause all around from our group.
Within the first 10 minutes of the tour, the bottom fell out of the sky, and all of us were under a tree trying to keep dry. It was a fierce downpour with loud thunder, and it lasted about 10 minutes. We had a pretty view from there, though.
City scenes:
Guess how many total Scrabble points the letters of this sign add up to!
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118!
I was walking ahead of the rest of our BearCruise group, and when I saw this store I thought, “Oh boy. Y’all have no idea what’s about to hit you.” I knew every bear in our group would stop in it!
We checked out St. Stephen’s Cathedral, and like most of the ones we’ve seen, it was elaborate.
“And, yes, I’m talking about that big-bellied schmuck right there!”
Tencalla-Garten
We participated in the Jukebox Jury activity, which was kind of a brilliant way to get people geared up for the subsequent disco dancing.
They gave us a list of 10 disco songs — which weren’t all disco songs, but songs from the “disco era” — and we had to predict which 3 songs (in order) would get the most people up on the floor dancing.
The brilliant part, of course, was that everybody wanted to get out on the dance floor when one of the songs they’d voted for was played.
Our favorite pictures are of our favorite bartender, Yuliana, when she joined in on one of the songs. It looks like she’s dancing with wild abandon!
Our friend Kayo won by getting the top 3 in the right order!
This was a fun, fun, fun night!