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If memory serves me well, Cliff Cassels also celebrates an April birthday (the 25th)?  Where is he anyway?

This Saturday I'll celebrate turning another year older but the ones along the shores of Chiemsee were always the best parties. I even came back from Bad Aibling to celebrate at Chiemsee every year except one. This year I turn 51 but from age 22 - 36 I celebrated each year in Germany the last nine years around AFRC. That was a size able chunk of live.
Every year at Chiemsee there was something about the party that was just a little more outlandish then the year before.
I would always have a great time and it would be very enjoyable time which never got out of hand while I was there. It was always after I left that the party got out of control.
Like the year when most of the patio furniture ended up in the lake and I spent most of the next day rowing around the waterfront and picking it up.
One year I came to the hotel the day after there was management trying to serve breakfast because the staff had a little too good of a time and just couldn't make it to work that following day.
One year I was told that I couldn't take the party indoors because the year before it seems that some people declared a toga party and even some of those green Fiberglass curtains were used for togas. I still think how that had to hurt and thinking back I seem to recall a certain scottsman ina green curtain the next morning. When that young man saw me he started to chant "Togo! Toga! Toga!" and I remember seeing a lot of red skin where the fiberglass curtains had been rubbing the skin. That had to hurt later.
Anyhow I asked a couple of the young ladies to discuss this idea of moving the party indoors with the manager of the time.
They came back about a half hour later and informed me that it was ok to move the party indoors. I never asked and don't know what changed the mind of management.
I seem to recall that was the same year when a K-car was heading to Berchtesgaden left the road and took out some German trees. There was some discussion that I was responsible for wreck since the guy had been at the party, but I had left about 2 hours earlier and when I offered to try and find out where and what had been going on between the ime I left and that K-car left, suddenly it was found that it could all just be dropped.*Grin*
There was always wine, women, bier and men. Every year I would by one bottle of Champagne for each year that I was old. That was all I spent for each party. We would danc our ass off in the Bar. At mid night I would leave the bar and head home. It was about the only time that I left the bar at midnight. However I had been at the bar the midnight before to start my Birthday off.

I'm sure that I'm the only one who is agging all these years and none of you have changed a bit. *Grin*
Joe Pritchard