>I’ve been invited to accompany a troupe (gaggle? flock? Convention?) of jugglers to a place called Tropical Island. I believe it’s somewhere southwest of Berlin. We leave tomorrow, sleeping bags in hand, and will return on Friday.

I neglected to tell them that I’ve got a mild, irrational fear of jugglers (Tachydaktylourgosophobiaophobia) and think water slides are questionably unsanitary.