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birthday munches and the cologne fur dance
Nov. 9th, 2008 07:19 pmWhat a weekend.
On Friday I took the train to Cologne together with Tekumseh (don't know if he has a lj). Met up with my kittycat, who gave me two birthday gifts, one somewhat expected and the other totally unexpected. Seems he stayed up half of the two previous nights to bake a cake made of chocolate, nuts, almond paste and cream. So sweet of him, and just perfect for a squirrel like me. Speaking of sweet, the cake itself tried to top the record set on the calorie scale by that infamous chocolate cake of death some ten years ago for a different occasion.
Having checked into the hotel we were staying at over the weekend, we left our stuff there , but took the cake along to go to the "Cafe Especial", a Mexican restaurant. It seems when you need a restaurant where you can eat at 10pm, your choices mostly are Mexican or Greek. Well, I didn't mind, I like Mexican anyway, and the restaurant served tasty food.
When everyone had arrived, I unwrapped the birthday presents my friends had given me. Thank you all so much! I got two additions to my DVD animated film collection (why won't they make more cartoons with squirrels?), two calendars (with squirrels), some red wine (just put into squirrel), a baileys drink set (more sweet stuff for squirrels), and a pack of Nuremberg gingerbread (for squirrels).
We had been a bit sneaky and had given the restaurant the cake to keep in the fridge until everyone was done eating. Then we brought it out, and when we left, everyone was so incredibly stuffed that we were joking about rolling places a lot.
The next day, we got up late, walked around idly in Cologne a bit, had steak for a very late breakfast, then sat in the hotel room some more. We have very little time to just sit and talk among ourselves anymore, so that was a highly welcome opportunity.
In the evening, we walked the short distance to the venue the Cologne Fur Dance was taking place at. From what I gathered, the Zeughaus is a dance school that rents out their place for parties at night. And that's exactly what we had. A dance party. DJs Cheetah, ORCI, BigBlueFox, and Kenai did a great job providing the music, the XXXXXXL fog machine made our embarrassing lack of dancing skills so hard to see that it didn't matter anymore, and our fursuiters provided the cuddly scenery and lots of fun with passing cars and pedestrians outside the door was had.
Today, we slept in a bit, and in the early afternoon I had to say goodbye to Tabalon for the week, as usual. But now I feel I've properly celebrated my birthday!
On Friday I took the train to Cologne together with Tekumseh (don't know if he has a lj). Met up with my kittycat, who gave me two birthday gifts, one somewhat expected and the other totally unexpected. Seems he stayed up half of the two previous nights to bake a cake made of chocolate, nuts, almond paste and cream. So sweet of him, and just perfect for a squirrel like me. Speaking of sweet, the cake itself tried to top the record set on the calorie scale by that infamous chocolate cake of death some ten years ago for a different occasion.
Having checked into the hotel we were staying at over the weekend, we left our stuff there , but took the cake along to go to the "Cafe Especial", a Mexican restaurant. It seems when you need a restaurant where you can eat at 10pm, your choices mostly are Mexican or Greek. Well, I didn't mind, I like Mexican anyway, and the restaurant served tasty food.
When everyone had arrived, I unwrapped the birthday presents my friends had given me. Thank you all so much! I got two additions to my DVD animated film collection (why won't they make more cartoons with squirrels?), two calendars (with squirrels), some red wine (just put into squirrel), a baileys drink set (more sweet stuff for squirrels), and a pack of Nuremberg gingerbread (for squirrels).
We had been a bit sneaky and had given the restaurant the cake to keep in the fridge until everyone was done eating. Then we brought it out, and when we left, everyone was so incredibly stuffed that we were joking about rolling places a lot.
The next day, we got up late, walked around idly in Cologne a bit, had steak for a very late breakfast, then sat in the hotel room some more. We have very little time to just sit and talk among ourselves anymore, so that was a highly welcome opportunity.
In the evening, we walked the short distance to the venue the Cologne Fur Dance was taking place at. From what I gathered, the Zeughaus is a dance school that rents out their place for parties at night. And that's exactly what we had. A dance party. DJs Cheetah, ORCI, BigBlueFox, and Kenai did a great job providing the music, the XXXXXXL fog machine made our embarrassing lack of dancing skills so hard to see that it didn't matter anymore, and our fursuiters provided the cuddly scenery and lots of fun with passing cars and pedestrians outside the door was had.
Today, we slept in a bit, and in the early afternoon I had to say goodbye to Tabalon for the week, as usual. But now I feel I've properly celebrated my birthday!
