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My husband and me are damn good at providing new content for the Outtakes section. For obvious reasons I am not willing to write about every Outtake we manage to make happen, but the next ones are to cute and stupid to not write about.

The last few weeks we were busy booking flights and hotels and managing our route for our upcoming trip to California. Last week I asked Flo to fill out the ESTA forms for our trip. I was in the other room when he suddenly yelled “Wow, they alreday charge you 50 bugs per person for it”. I was kind of shocked by this and told him not to fill out the form before asking someone about it. He promptly typed a message into the American Dream Greencard winner forum to ask the other winners about it. Like five minutes later he got his answer via Google: The ESTA forms who already charge you money are fake! We were kind of relieved. But when we read the answer another winner posted for us, we felt embarrassed. Because as every winner but us knows: You don’t have to fill out the ESTA form anymore when you have a Greencard visa.

The other Outtake happened only a few days later. After one day in San Francisco, the second stop of our trip will be San Luis Obispo and the Madonna Inn hotel. Since I saw the hotel on TV a few years ago, I made it my big goal to pay it a visit one day. Flo booked the hotel without telling me as a belated birthday present. But when he told me about the dates he booked later that evening, I wasn’t only surprised in a positive way. We had already booked a hotel in Huntington Beach a few weeks ago and Flo kind of double-booked rooms for us. One in San Luis Obispo and one in Huntington Beach. The staff at the Madonna Inn was very helpful, so after 5 E-Mails Flo finally managed to book us a room for the right dates! I guess those guys will recognize the strange Germans first hand when we arrive!

I named this article “Outtakes – Holiday Edition Part 1″, because I am pretty sure that in the two weeks in America a lot of Outtakes will cross our way. So, stay tuned! And enjoy your laugh…

The Outtakes section kind of amuses me, even if I am the person who is being made fun of. So I give you yet another opportunity to laugh. About two weeks ago my husband and me made some Oreo cupcakes for the birthday of one of my colleagues. I love cupcakes in general and especially this ones, because they are unbelievably sweet and Oreos are my favorite cookies.

When we were finished I proudly posted a comment on Facebook about the yummy cupcakes in my kitchen. My aunt, which is living in the US since long before I’ve been born, immediately commented my post with the word “yaak”. Me being the little German girl, who does only know some colloquial english phrases, naturally mistook her comment for a positive one and answered that I will make some Oreo Cupcakes for her the next time we meet.

She didn’t post an answer to that and the next day I asked my american colleague what the expression “yaak” meant – just to be on the safe side. And – yes now is the time to officially laugh – he told me that it meant something like disgusting! I didn’t tell him the reason for me asking, but rushed to my computer and deleted my comment off Facebook. I guess it is pretty rare to misinterpret words to the exact opposite of what they actually mean.

Another Outtake happened to me at this very spot! A few weeks ago I wrote about the Superbowl and compared it to big german sport events like the Soccer World Championship. In this post I used the phrase “public viewing”, which actually is the german phrase for sports events that you watch with a huge crowd at public places. Luckily one of my dear readers immediately told me that in the US public viewing does not describe a sports event, but the showing off a dead body at a funeral.

This two Outtakes are till now my creepiest and most embarrassing ones, but I guess I don’t even have to try to collect more for you. I’ll just wait for them to come…