Thursday last week I went to Oslo with Rohny, Bjørn Ole, and Morten, to meet up with the rest of the guys who were going on this year’s trip. We had no idea what to expect, so when we met Erling, Thomas, and Anders at Gardermoen airport we were dying to find out what the plans were.
As the title suggests, the destination for this year’s trip was Berlin, Germany, something we were told by the guys when we met them at Gardermoen. What they didn’t tell us, was that there was a well-planned reason for going to that specific city. More on that later on.
I won’t go into details about the trip, mainly because it’s all highly classified information. The keywords of for this information would be: beer, food, sightseeing, beer, food, sambuca, tequila, party, beer, food, sambuca, sambuca, sambuca.
The goal for this trip, as with all our trips, is just to have plenty of fun, chat with old friends about old times, and experience new things to chat about during next year’s trip. With those goals in mind, the trip was a huge success. We had a fantastic time, and when we thought it couldn’t get any better, the following happened:
We’re eating a nice dinner at TV-turm in Berlin, all of us dressed up in suits, looking as good as we possibly could, when a waitress walked up to us with seven envelopes in her hand. The grin on Erling’s face soon revealed that this was staged by him. After two nice speeches by Erling and Anders, we were allowed to open the envelopes. Inside were tickets to a Pearl Jam concert the next day! We have all been listening to Pearl Jam for as long as we can remember, so this was just the perfect concert for us to go to. After dinner we went straight out to celebrate that we were going to the concert, and we didn’t get back to the apartment until about 6 in the morning. I later heard rumors about a shortage of Sambuca in bars all over Berlin, and I’m pretty sure we had something to do with that. There were also rumors of some crazy Norwegians who had been dancing like crazy all night at a club called Stern Radio, but this has not been confirmed…
Describing the concert is easy: it was AWESOME! I had chills down my back pretty much the whole time, the crowd was awesome – something that seemed to have an inspiring effect on Eddie Vedder because he was really giving us a great show! A great experience that I will not soon forget. I learned today that it’s possible to purchase a bootleg from the concert from http://bootleg.pearljam.com/. Can’t wait to listen to the concert again!
Well, that’s about all the information I can give without risking death by accident on our next trip, so to sum things up – we had a fantastic time, and I can’t wait to start planning next year’s trip!
Indeed, from around where I live several trucks with Sambuca were sent to Berlin. There was also a call for some more beer but what was left was needed for our own party
\r\n\r\nI wish I had known that Pearl Jam rocked Germany just a little earlier … Glad you had so much fun in Berlin. Next time you come to Germany remember to visit me 
\r\n\r\nBut please bring your own Sambuca 
Hehe, good to hear we\’ve left our mark all over Germany
\r\n\r\nI definitely plan to visit Germany again, hopefully next time I\’ll have time to travel around Germany with a stop at your house 
Otherwise I\’d be happy to buy you a Sambuca and a beer or ten if you take the trip to Berlin!\r\n\r\nThe next time we are going on a \”boys trip\”, I\’ll be sure to bring a couple bottles of Sambuca to avoid running out 
Sounds lke a GREAT trip and an excellent concert! \r\n\r\nBtw. I heard rumors about an Oslo trip in november, if so maybe someone should tip off the bars in oslo and make sure they stock up on Sambuca! (Or get Hiep to buy some for \”friday beer\”)
The whole trip was totally awesome
\r\n\r\nYes, hopefully I\’ll be able to stay the weekend in Oslo when I\’m going to a PHP course at Linpro, in which case I\’d be happy to join you for a few Sambuca shots (how quickly we forget the agony of Sambuca-hangovers) 