We Are Royals, Too

Or: The Emperor Marries

Some funnies from this week/life.

Storm Christian hit Germany bad this Monday, our region not too bad, though, luckily! At the coast the wind went up to some unbelievable 190 km/h, over here “just” 120.
Trees knocked over, roofs were blown away, in the radio-news this took a while.
After the news we always get traffic news.
The radio-guy said, “ok and now on to the traffic…” – someone in the background moaned like really big, “oahhhhhh…!” :-)))
And yes, the traffic-news took a long while, too.

Oahhhhhh… :-) I really had to laugh!

We are royal? Yes - funny today: Being born with a name like that, translated “Emperor”, it´s funny to answer someone named Knecht, which is "Servant" I tell ya!

Best funny was years ago, someone called me at the office from his car – I could barely hear him, guess it was the other way round, too.
Me: “Emperor”…. “huh?!” – “Emperor.”… “what?!”…. “Em – pe - ror!”…. “ummm… I wanted to talk to Mr. (König =) King…”
Try.Not.To.Laugh!
I did not say, I send you down, then :-)

Nice was also when my back-then VW-boss (I´m external) introduced our team, starting with said Mr. King, ending with me. It was by chance, according to the place where we stood, but it was confusing to the visiting group for sure :-)

And, yes, Mr. King had a higher position than I.

To top it, and I can proof it, at my parents` place one employee was named Pabst = Pope, and one regular customer´s name was Graf = Earl.

As said, we´re royals, too ;-)

Thanks to Rodney´s contact we made it in time and will hopefully marry November 30th or December 1st.
I have no idea of the whole thing yet, since we won´t have a car and stay at the Caravan Park, both makes a party rather difficult, plus, I´m a very shy person, I don´t like to stand in the middle of something happening… but we´ll see. A party was suggested by some already…
Woah. Can´t believe it.
My friend P admitted it took her three years to shake the feeling of losing her freedom off her shoulders.

Ingo on the other hand yesterday grabbed mine (hand) and said he´s happy we´re getting married :-)

And no, I won´t lose my name, each keeps his.

And then near these data:

We´ll get the official German document.
We´ll have two marriage-certificates with the two towns we love most :-)

Woah. This sure will be a year to remember!

I have to add, Bro helped a lot here, too, getting my birth certificate and all.
The notary and his secretary in Braunschweig were a huge and quick and friendly help as well.
As the contact, Rodney gave me, C – she even gave feedback at 00:30 her time, kinda working nightshift for us! I do not take this for granted!

I hate making trouble, this time we did and we got so much help and everybody was understanding and friendly!

I mean, really. We´re together now since 19 years and have to get this done in under a week!
Just last Thursday Ingo got the advice! And by Wednesday it was set.

Sadly the original document we have to send goes out only tomorrow and takes three days (express). I hope this doesn´t cause further problems...

This in itself was some hectic thing today!
Ingo got winter-tyres, so I went alone to our little post office by foot. Express? No, you need to go the main office for that.
Gah. Walked back, got into the basement to get the bike (pic: not mine! This belongs to a huuuuge soccer fan. This year is the first since ages that Braunschweig went into first league with soccer (in footy "we" are German Bowl Defender just yet again).
Cycled all the way to the main office just to learn express has to go out till 12:30 the latest :-(
Forgot we just switched to winter time, wore a black jacket, no lights - that´s exactly what I hate about cyclists! Ok, my helmet has a little light, but, ewwww. And all for nothing! Ingo has a day off tomorrow and repeats what I did in time. (I was advised to fill out the form at home since it´s rather complicated).

Coming next: Plans for Perth – please add poi´s! It´s seven years ago we´ve been in your place! I´m sure there are places I missed on my list!