minnmess wrote:
Have you seen my paycheque?????
Have you seen the way you spell check? hahahahaha!!
I've mentioned before that in high school I was an exchange student and live in Cologne, Germany for a year. On May Day (well really the eve of) boys secretly put a decorated tree in the yard of their beloved (or someone they liked).
And yes, an actual live tree. The ones I saw more looked like part of a larger tree they had sawed off but they were several feet tall and certainly seemed difficult to transport. My friends boyfriend went a little nuts and hers was as tall as their two-story house. They would put streamers, crepe paper, etc. in them.
The girl had one month to guess who did it. If she didn't, she owed the guy a case of beer. On the 31st we gathered on the Rhine River and threw them all in the water. Maybe some were burnt? I can't quite remember that part.
Edit: found a little blog about them
http://english-speaking-cologne.blogspot.com/ 
