We've been busy the past couple days because my good friend Avri and his friend Cliff came to stay with us on Thursday. The main goal of their trip (in addition to seeing me/Berlin) was to go to a concert for a band that Cliff has been a huge fan of for many many years called Fury and the Slaughterhouse. The concert was on Friday and we rented a car and drove for hours in traffic and rain (or I should say Carlos drove for hours in traffic and rain) to Hannover after discovering that Hannover by train is rather expensive as the line which connects Berlin and Hannover is the ICE. The concert itself was maybe not my biggest cup of tea: 80s-sounding popular rock by a band now nearly in their 50s. Surprisingly the songs were all in English and although the crowd was entirely German everyone sang along. I think Cliff at least had a good time as the band dedicated a song to him for coming all the way from America (and the drummer's wife later called him insane). Schnitzel and I had a pretty miserable time as we did not have backstage passes and spent much of the time after the concert dodging drunken Hannoverins and trying to figure out where the car was in the rain. We didn't get back until 5 and fell asleep upon arrival. After returning the car the next day, we realized we had paid over 200 euros for the whole experience, which is about 75 dollars each. This morning on the table there was a note written to Schnitzel from Avri stating his gratitude and suggesting that we had all gotten into more than we had bargained for.
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