Shopping Night- Event
This weekend was Lubben's annual "Shopping Night"- a typical event held usually in the summer by stores and restaurants filled with live music, drinks, and entertainment. Each shop/restaurant usually has a theme, not only to advertise their products but simply for fun and entertainment. "Human mannequins" are very common during this event for a lot of shops. This is where they have a few persons or kids dressed up (accordingly to their theme) at the windows with the store's products. The purse/bag store nearby had a pirate theme, other stores had body paint and snake dancers.
I got to experience Shopping Night this summer working with the Liebscher's at Bluming Inn- their beautiful flower shop! Our theme this year was "Red Carpet", and all the workers had to wear stashes named a certain flower, mine was Miss Orchid. Prior to this event, I helped purchase items needed such as candles, cups, liquor, and small snacks. I also helped set up the back area of Bluming Inn, setting up tables and chairs, flowers, candles, all glasses for wine, champagne and soda. Sven (Rodica's boyfriend) and I were the bartenders during the event, so we had set up the bar and sink area.
8 o'clock was when people started rolling in, drawn by the loud upbeat music by the Italian band we chose this year. It was a lot of fun and everyone seemed to really enjoy themselves! Next thing I knew, the place was packed! To clear the air- Yes, Germans do love beer. No, their beer is not warm.
The challenging part of working this event (besides the horribly slow and dysfunctional beer tap), is, again, the language barrier. I reviewed the drinks in my head beforehand what they will ask, but when it's actually happening, I'm like a deer in headlights, with bad ears... they talk so fast! Sven ended up taking drink orders while I poured the beers. The event got over at 2:30, and word on the skreet was that we were the busiest place in town/hot spot that night! Good music, great drinks, awesome people, beautiful flowers everywhere...what can beat that?!