Nürnberg, Star Wars, and more.

   Monday was payday :-) That means that I got to pay my bills, take care of a few miscellaneous purchases, and book my trip to and from Barcelona. Last weekend the boys and I held another poker night, and while hangin' we decided to go out this Friday night. As a result, the majority of the week became an eager anticipation for the weekend to arrive.
   Alas, friday came around, we got off from work, had dinner and made our way out. We arrived in Nürnberg with plans to go out and stay the night at a hostel. To our surprise and a few apparent technical difficulties, we were unable to book a hostel for the night since there was a big Toy Fair taking place that weekend. Literally EVERY hostel and hotel  in town was booked to the max, so we were now left hangin' high and dry in a city with no where to spend the night. This is where my assertiveness kicked in. Instead of suggesting, I demanded that we hold on tight to our 'fuck it' attitude, go out anyway, and make friends and get them to let us sleep at their pads. I rallied the boys, they agreed, and so that is what we did. We ended up in this really nice venue right outside of the castle's walls, The Castle Pub was the name. Upon entering, it looks almost as if you're walking into some kind of professional office of some sort, until you take a flight of windy steps going down that lead you into a wine cellar-esque basement with dim lighting, a cozy and packed crowd and live music.
   This reeked of opportunity. My friend Ryan insisted he would buy us the first round, and while he was at the bar ordering, I went through my progressions...of course step 1 is scoping out a table with decent looking people to approach haha. Fortunately, I found a table next to where we were standing to have a group of Germans conversing and having a good time, I approached a girl sitting there and pulled out an old camera trick Eugene and I used through out freshman year. We would basically go up to girls, ask them to take a picture of us (about 99% of time they happily agree) and once they did we asked them to jump in the picture with us instead. Easy and great way to break the ice. They invited us all to sit with them, and we spent the remainder of the night socializing and drinking with them. The best part, aside from making new friends, was that we accomplished our goal and one of them welcomed us into crashing at their place.
   We spent Saturday walking throughout the streets of the city, taking a brief tour of the Castle, and we also shopped for a little bit. We came back, began a Star Wars movie marathon (I had never watched the movies, and after somehow getting into a conversation about the series we decided to watch them all) and finished off the night playing Halo hahaha. Today I will be watching sports all day, as well as taking part in my first ever Texas Hold 'Em poker tournament. Wish me luck! I leave you all with a newfound obsession of mine. This will be on repeat for months. Tschüss!

At the Castle Pub, with only half the table.