The bar crawl was great on Friday night. Met a couple of really cool people including a Canadian girl who gets to do new adventures every year such as learning to sky dive or fly a plane. I ended up going dancing with her and one of the guys who worked for the beer tour. The guy was being such a duchbag we ended up ditching him.

I also met a pre-med student who does rock climbing and lives in Massachusetts. Go figure I would fly half way across the world to find someone I can rock climb with back home. She gets back in the middle of July and wants to show me some of the climbing spots out in western Mass.

Saturday was all about go-cart racing. We went to the burbs of Munich to race these small but peppy vehicles around a track filled with gut renching chicanes. It was almost like being on a rollercoster that you could crash. It was fun but not my type of fun. It gets awfully hot in those helmets and really hard to stay in control. I will tell you one thing, I have a new found respect for what race car drivers must go through. A half an hour of riding go-carts and I was sore as hell.

That night we went to some ex-pat’s going away party at a bar local to my friend’s place. Met a lot of his friends who are all really cool and make me feel I could move here. From the opares to the figure skating instructor to the engineer, there really is a huge diversity in the ex-pat communities. It is something I don’t get quite enough of in the US where most of my friends are Linux developers (who I wouldn’t trade for all the world).

Today was spent at the Olympic Stadium watching the aggressive in-line park competition at the LG Games. A couple of my favorite street skaters were there such as Brian Shima and Chris Haffy. I have to admit while the action was really good I would rather see them in a street competition then in park. Haffy just didn’t throw down the massive tricks he is known for.

After the finals were over we headed down to the English Garden to play some Ultimate Frisbee which is a staple with the ex-pats. Not having eaten much I was gone after ten minutes of play at which point I retired to the sidelines and sucked water from my camel pack.

Tonight it is karaoke, another of the ex-pat’s staples, and then to the Red Hat Munich office in the morning. I’m going to miss my time in Munich but at least I have made some friends and will even see some when I get back to the US in a week. Hopefully Karlsruhe will offer up as much fun in the week to come but it is good I got it out ahead of time since I will be looking to get some work done while I am at the conference.

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