So. Many. Houseplants.

Paul, After a Night of Social Excitement (read: Introvert's Exhaustion)

Our party was flappin' fantastic.

The final stragglers, around 11:30.  We're party animals like that.

Big thanks to all twenty-five people who smooshed into our living room and kitchen to chat with a whole bunch of people from everywhere around the world and take guided tours to our teal bathroom.
 

One of....six....(yeup, I just counted) substantially sized
houseplants now gracing our window sills.

And huge thanks to everyone for the houseplants and cutlery and gift certificates and candles and the cupcakes and the Pakistani fritter things and the pringles (I don't know who brought them, but bless you) and the cinnamon rolls and that fancy bottle of Hungarian dessert wine (thank you, Hungarians); the pistachios, the philo-dough feta things (thank you French people), the cookies, the people who were brave enough to try my Reuben sandwich cracker dip--thanks to you!  

WE'RE GONNA PLAY BINGO so RAISE THE ROOF!

 And thank you friendly next-door neighbors and "Tilo from the Roof" for dropping by and taking it in stride when a very excitable American accosted you saying, "Wanna play BINGO**?!  There are PRIZES!"

And thank you everybody for adding to our sticky-note map of Germany!  It looks awesome--all covered with your tourism suggestions.  And thank you, Roman and Geraldine, for leaving sticky-notes in other random places that we keep finding (Okay!  Okay!  You've convinced us to go to Marseilles!).

It was seriously, seriously so incredibly fun to have you all over.  Please come by again soon! 



**Not a chance that I actually "hand calligraphied" the Bingo game.  But I did find a cheap version at the "euro store" in the city center.  I also learned that Bingo is pretty much the most popular game ever in Pakistan--where it's called Tambola  (TAMBOLA!  Way more fun to yell.)    I also learned that Bingo is pretty much the best game to have when you have 25+ people in your house sitting on your floor.  Also, the best prizes are rainbow cellophane tape and body scrub.   And mars bars, but that's a given.