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As promised, here are the pictures that I have collected thus far for my little scavenger hunt game. I'm gonna extend it through the weekend, because I know I can finish up the list. Well, pretty much everything except for a billboard with Arnold Schwarzenegger's picture. I would have even settled for a Terminator 3 poster, but damned if I could find one. And the blind person thing...man, I don't know if I can go through with that one. Oh, also the cake one...German cakes are quite delicious, but they just don't decorate them like they do back at home...

...but other than that...I think I can get everything else...




P.S. You might want to stop the slideshow once it loads and then just click through the photos one by one...

(Click below to see what's left of the list)


1.) People crossing the street at a red light (Buche)
2.) The 7 Deadly Sins, which in case you're wondering are gluttony, lust, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, pride (Miss Fee)
3.) 3 Live Animals (Miss Fee)
4.) The items in a Kinder egg (Miss Fee)
5.) The front of my apartment building. (Miss Fee)
6.) People wearing the clothing of their native land (Pickles)
7.) A very large slab of döner meat (Pickles)
8.) A breakdancer (Pickles)
9.) A nun (Pickles)
10.) A white, German rapper (Pickles) [insert comment about redundancy here]
11.) A bum in an "odd" place (Pickles)
12.) A birthday cake decorated in an unusual manner (Pickles)
13.) A usable, yet rusty and falling apart bike (Anon.)
14.) Freighter with the most multi-colored cargo containers (Anon.)
15.) A person that I don't know taking the picture of another person that I don't know and who is also not myself (Anon.)
16.) Someone eating a Weißwurst (Anon.)
17.) A full rainbow set of different doors (Anon.)
18.) Plant growing in a strange spot (Jen)
19.) Mismatched couple (Jen & Mike -- who are a perfectly matched couple, btw)
20.) Lost shoe (Jen & Mike)
21.) Something demonstrating the general incompetency of public works.(Jen & Mike)
22.) People waiting in a really long line. (Jen & Mike)
23.) A street performer (Jen & Mike)
24.) A sleeping dog (Andie)
25.) Someone reading something in a language that is not english or german (Andie)
26.) A tourist looking lost (Andie)
27.) inadvertent porn (Andie)
28.) A sign containing incorrect grammar in the language of my choice (Andie)
29.) A billboard with Arnold Schwarzenegger's picture. (Andie)
30.) A grouping of different beers in glasses at a bar or restaurant (Andie)
31.) Deer (Andie) {Dude, deer?! Are you kidding me? *sigh*}
32.) A pink building (Andie)
33.) The light at the end of the tunnel (Andie)
34.) The most creative parking spot (Anon)
35.) A blind person (Aliya)
36.) A whore (Aliya)
37.) Something that looks like love (Aliya)
38.) The toes of someone unrelated to me, which I take to mean "a stranger" since I'm not really related to any one here (Aliya)
39.) A person puking in a public place (Buche)
40.) A funny advertisement in a public bathroom (Buche)
41.) A car with the most junk inside, not Buche's -- haha... (Buche)
42.) Small person / Big headphones / not Raven (Buche)
43.) Midget doin' the "pop, lock and drop it"
44.) Creatively placed OZ tag.


BONUS: a pair of shoes tied together and hanging from something (e.g. tree, cable, pole, etc.)

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