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Darling, my Precious,
What an exciting week this has been. Europa! in München ist, und everyone is delirious with the football fever. This year's World Cup is a sun-drenched parade of fans from all over, as the top teams vie for the most coveted football prize on Earth.
Everyone is having so much fun, darling, from the brave, athletic types who actually use their official World Cup balls in the local parks,...
Europa! sat in the shade and watched the local fußball prowess.
...to the more sensible people, who use this as an excuse to dance in the streets or crawl from pub to pub.
Don't be fooled by the silly hats - these are the sensible people. Click here to see the fun brought to München by the Brasil fans. (This is a 5+MB mp4 file which will take a minute or two to upload, and will launch automatically on your QuickTime Player... Follow Europa! down a München street during the unofficial World Cup festivities!)
Oh, but, darling... the best thing of all... Europa! was enjoying a wonderful, rich cappucino in the lobby of her hotel last Sunday when the Australian team, which was residing in the hotel, came out to play... They had a very important game against "Brasil" that evening, and anticipation was high everywhere in Deutschland. One by one, under very tight security, the Aussies calmly made their way to their bus. Well, Europa! was so thrilled that she almost forgot to take a photo for you. And of course, the ones that Europa! finally squeezed out are a little blurry. There is something about a parade of tall, athletic, Socceroos that makes Europa!'s camera hand shake.
The March of the Blurry Socceroos
Europa! was so enamored of the darling Socceroos that she was very disappointed to see them defeated in that day's game... and worse! Europa! just found out last night that the Socceroos were eliminated from the next World Cup round...
Goodbye, Socceroos, you will be missed. (Easter Egg)
But, darling, Europa! has a problem. She cannot find "Australia" or "Brasil" on the map of Europe. This is very confusing to Europa!, so please, if you can help, let Europa! know.
Prima, und nehmen Sie meine Küsse an, Schatzie! XX
Ciao!
Europa! 8-D
