Wednesday, 9/14

The tickets have been purchased. I guess that's one less thing to worry about.

Our tickets to the main reason for our trip to Germany in two weeks--the match between RB Leipzig and Bochum--have now been purchased, and are awaiting download into the RB ticket app I had to stick on my phone. Germans being Germans, you have to follow their rules completely and to the letter, and that means that we can't have paper tickets. We can only show them the digital ones and get into the game that way.

So digital it is.

When we went to buy the tickets we were a little surprised that many of them had already sold; you see, Bochum is the absolute worst team in the Bundesliga--zero points taken from six matches so far--and they just fired their coach. So we were kind of wondering if anyone would actually WANT to go to this match. As it turns out, a LOT of people want to go.

Like us, they're probably hoping for an easy win for the home team. But I can just imagine the reaction RB Leipzig would get if they were to lose to a team that hasn't won yet and just fired their coach.

It would be like they were the Detroit Lions of the Bundesliga. And THAT would not be a good way to spend the day.

8-)

With that, we now have everything that we can control taken care of for our little dip back into international travel. Oh, sure, we're still at the mercy of the airlines, of weather, of new Covid breakouts, and of the fact that there's a war a thousand kilometers or so from where we're staying. But we're being hopefully optimistic that maybe, just maybe, we'll actually get something out of all this.

So keep your fingers crossed.

(jim@wmqt.com)

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If you're in Marquette tonight don't forget that you can join me and several hundred of my closest friends as we take the North Marquette walking tour for the History Center. It gets underway at 630 at the PEIF parking lot, and while it might be slightly chillier than most walking tours we're promised not a cloud in the sky. So if you feeling like taking a leisurely stroll, we'd love to have you join us!