Wise Guys concert

This picture is from the Afterglow. They sang one song ("She" the one from Notting Hill, it's at the beginning and the end). We went to the restaurant in the bottom of the concert house after the concert, and after a while they came down to meet fans and talk and sign autographs and take pictures, and they call that the Afterglow. We weren't allowed to take pictures during the actual concert. The concert was AMAZING though. For anyone who doesn't know, they are a five man A Capella group. Their songs are original, and pretty much entirely in German. The concert was about two hours long, with an intermission. By the second half, everyone was standing, and dancing, and singing. They were really great at getting the crowd involved. They really danced around the stage, and I only noticed them out of breath once. They also sang three encores. There were probably four to six thousand people there, but only maybe 100 to 200 people at the Afterglow.

After they finished singing "She" they dispersed among the crowd and Sari stopped right in front of Kirsten and I. He is a really fast talker, and unleashed about half a paragraph in two seconds to me, none of which I understood. I said, "tut mir leid, mein Deutsch ist nicht gut" (I'm sorry, my German isn't good) He said "it's ok," and immediately started speaking English to me, even though it seemed like he was a little hesitant about it. We talked a minute, me trying to think of something intelligent to say while also listening to Kirsten explain (in German) where I was from, and that I knew all the words to the songs, etc. He really paid attention to what we were saying, which was nice, considering there were like 200 other people who wanted to talk to him (they all did that with everyone, it was so nice). Then Kirsten asked if she could take a picture of me with him, so here it is. I feel dumb, because I think all I needed to do was ask him to speak a little slower in German, and I would have done ok, and I feel like it was rude of me to make him feel like he had to speak English. Oh well, he was really nice, so hopefully I didn't offend him.

This is Dän. It looks like we are having a great conversation, but all I said was thank you for the great evening (in German). Then he said something I didn't understand. Kirsten just took a picture at the right time. That thing on the table is mine (the mini poster, not the beer), and I got all five of them to sign it. We talked to Eddi for a minute, and took a picture with him, but he asked us not to use the flash, and it didn't turn out. I feel REALLY bad and guilty, because I got all their autographs and pictures with them, and Kirsten didn't get any. She took the pictures. It was so sweet of her to do that for me. I should have done the same for her, but I was so crazy trying to understand, and being excited, that I didn't think of it in time.