Arlinger Fest

Before:

As I said before, this summer is being special even though the weather insists to behave as autumn. The accreditation party of my Professor was nice; barbecue, drinks and even a live band. When I saw the live band my first thought and probably Karen's also was to play some songs with them. Well, that's exactly what happened, at the end we were playing three songs with and that was a nice warm up for the Arlinger Fest. After the performance, Karen willing to conciliate her image of serious PhD student with a Pop/Rock singer hurried to say to our Professor:

"This is just for hobby, you know..."

To which he answered:

"I hope so!!!" Followed by his typical laugh :)

The show:

After some more weeks of normal activities then came the Arlinger! In the words of my good friend Alex: "If you are coming just to drink a few beers better don't come!" (in the best German way to say something :)) I was already afraid because I am not actually used to drink much and this party is basically a drinking party. The Arlinger Fest is a party occurring at each two years in the street called Arlinger and its neighbourhood. Everyone decorates their houses and there are some other attractions going on, like small bands, fireworks and etc... Alex told me he misused the occasion to make his own version in his garage, where there is always a theme as background and lots of beers, cocktails and food, including delicious home made sausages done by his grandpa. This year in special, the theme was the 80's, and the ChubbyBunnies (Karen and I) were the live band attraction.
Everything set, lights, fog, Karen with her typical 80's dress and I with a nice wig :) After some introductory words from Alex the show began and the ChubbyBunnies put the house down with a rock version of Material Girl!! Of course I always putting some metal elements when possible. Was very funny and we did it quite well, specially Karen, but the people were a little bit cold, maybe they were not drunk enough :)

Set-List:

Material girl - Madonna
Breakaway - Kelly Clarkson
Since you've been gone - Kelly Clarkson
Underneath your clothes - Shakira
No, no never - Texas Lighting
What a feeling - Flash Dance

Encore:

Girl from Ipanema - Tom jobin
Bring me back to life - Evanescence

After:

Time to drink! After some beers, caipirinha and tequila I was surprisingly still ok. Maybe because I ate a lot. Actually, maybe not completely ok, since I was playing soccer with balloons with Christine for quite a while and laughing a lot in between.

Mistake:

By this time, only Alex, Hens (organizers), Karen, Christine and I were still partying. I was still drinking beer and Hens a mixing of beer with grape fruit.

I told Hens:

"Hey Hens, this is drink for girls!"

Well, this was not a happy joke... Because of that, he made me and the rest drink another round of Tequila, since we were supposed to drink man stuff... :~)