Today had many twists and turns. It’s carnival or fasching as it’s cold here… The last craziness before the Catholic Lent.

A couple of things made it remarkable… First of all I was running to a meeting from my hotel over to our headquarters when I decided to take a shortcut by running down a hill. I quickly found out that underneath the green grass was still ice and I slipped and fell and slid down this big hill. It was so much fun, so embarrassing, and so practically difficult

Here’s the hill looking down from my office

Here’s my very dirty sports coat… And I just had it dry cleaned

At the end I was covered with mud… Yet I still had a meeting to go to. I was able to run back to the hotel and change my clothes and get back to the meeting before it was really started… That was great…

I also managed to get in my mud covered clothes into the laundry.… What I didn’t realize is that I had left my wallet in my pants pocket… So when it came to the end of the day and I had to go catch a cab somewhere… “No cash”… No nothing. That that that I was able to locate through my hotel the laundry people and luckilythey had saved my wallet. I had to wait a little bit to get it but then I was able to go downtown and meet friends for the carnival celebration. It was a zoo. There were so many people out in crazy costumes.

I love carnival… I love you all…
Night all, night sam
-me

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