Notice the cans tied to string tied to me that I'm dragging along. Made quite some noise.

I don't think I got any money out of her. Ali's no help either.

The train fare is 5.20 SFr. Not too much, but those Swiss didn't get rich by giving their money away. Eventually I did get enough, and we caught the next train into town.

If you've been to Bern (or live there), you know that the town isn't very big. So that means that it was pretty probably that we'd bump into Claudia's bachelorette party.

Well as soon as we stepped off the train, we did. Dani chased us away fortunately.
Throughout the night we ran into people saying "Oh, you must be the fiance' of that girl running around town..."

Eventually Schorsch explained the rules to me. I had to perform a series of tasks (such as getting these Japanese tourists to make a "donation"). Every time I completed a task, I would be given a piece of this picture puzzle. And, once assembled, the picture would be a clue to what to do next.

The first task, was to make my way up to a balcony, or terrace, on one of the Bernese apartments. For about 20 minutes, I rang door bells and asked people (in my worst German) if they had a terrace overlooking the city. I had to convince them to allow 10 guys to hold a little party up there.

Amazingly, someone did let us up to their terrace. They were really nice. We had forgotten our wine glasses, but without a beat the gentleman brought out glasses for everyone. (I still had my beer mug.)

This isn't the poor section of Bern. Our hosts apartment happened to be right underneath the Münster Cathedral (where I was going to be married) which made it more meaningful to me.

They were really good to all of us. We stayed up there for about 1/2 hour before moving on. Oh yeah, I got a piece of the puzzle for successfully completing that task!