Soggy, yet Bouncy

Kev left me early yesterday morning to bus with the team to Nürnberg for todays game. Saturday turned out to be a beautiful day so after running in the morning, a girlfriend and I headed downtown to enjoy the afternoon. We intended to grab a coffee, shop a little, walk around, and just hang out. Walking around downtown is a regular activity here on free days; I don't always write about it because I know you all would get sick of hearing it! But living here, I never get sick of spending an entire afternoon seeing this:

Or this:

Anyway, we started walking around intending to get a coffee when I remembered a shop from last year that has a drink called Bubble Tea. For those of you that have never had Bubble Tea, first and foremost, if there is a shop in your area, go try it! Delicious. Bubble Teas come from Taiwan originally and are served either as a fruit or milk tea. Yesterday, I had a Caramel Milk Tea. The tea itself is so tasty, but the unique thing about it is that they put a scoop of tapioca balls at the bottom of it. These little tapioca pearls are the weirdest things I have ever consumed. (I decided to change to their actual name, pearls, because I know balls will have all your dirty little minds running!)  Don't even try to drink through your straw hoping for only the tea because at least one of these little pearls manages to sneak through with every sip! My girlfriend and I were trying to find a way to describe them with words. We came up with "soggy on the outside, bouncy on the inside." What is bouncy? Try a Bubble Tea sometime and find out!

Downtown Hamburg was a sight to see on Saturday. The stores were so busy that we decided just to window shop and browse around. Street performers were everywhere and one in particular caught our attention. 

We stood for a bit just questioning how these performers were giving the illusion of standing/sitting on thin air. We came to the conclusion that it has to do with the silver things they are holding on to and whatever is under that white sheet. Can you figure it out? 

Happy Sunday! Tschüss!