Day 15

Day 15
Today we said bye to the Castle and headed to Berlin. We had to drive from the *right* Sommersdorf to Wurzburg and catch the train to Gottening. After Gottening, we headed to Berlin. It was so fun. The train was A: packed and B: kept having computer issues. Blah. So after getting to the main station in Berlin, we headed down to McDonalds for a quick bite. It was 2 and our train was over 30 minutes late getting into Berlin. We hadn’t eaten since 7 the night before so we were pretty hungry.
After finishing lunch, I called Sabrina, who was waiting for us at the station. OMG it was sooooooooooooo nice to finally meet her in person. She’s got to be a good 6 inches taller than me (-: So we went into McDonalds and picked up Cliff and our luggage and got a taxi. We got to the hostel and it’s an experience. I’ve never been to a hostel before so coming into a room that’s a double but has 4 beds is a bit odd. But it’s all a learning experience right? That’s why we travel? So we agreed to meet in 30 minutes and she came down to our room and we just chilled out for a while waiting on it to stop raining. I think this is the rainy season over here. Go figure. I brought her PB M&Ms and she gave me a book on Hamburg (an incentive to visit!), Oreo cappuccino (yummy) and a Deutsch calendar on Deutschland. I can’t decide if it’s going on the wall at home or at work. I’ll probably put it on the wall at home.
After it stopped raining, we walked around the immediate area and got some pictures. We found this candy store that had chocolate carvings. The carvings were of the Titanic, Germany’s Parliament, a Teddy Bear (Berlin’s Mascot), a working chocolate volcano, and something else. They were exquisite. The entire store smelled heavenly. Needless to say, I didn’t buy anything. Why torture myself? So we walked around and did a bit of sight-seeing. We saw the Russian, Italian, French, and British Embassies. We found out that our Hostel overlooks the Korean Embassy. I’m not sure if it’s North or South. I don’t wanna know to be honest. We also saw the government buildings and a gate, I can’t remember the name of it now but I’ll put it in later. We also went to this museum for the Jewish people of WWII and memorial. The Memorial was set up like a graveyard in Louisiana and was very interesting. It was most humbling. The museum itself. Reading what these poor people went through and entire families being wiped out. It’s so sad reading about this. I don’t see how someone could target a certain group of people like that. It makes no sense to me. I’m trying to imagine if someone did that today what would happen.
After the museum and a bit of later afternoon sight-seeing we went to get supper at a Vietnamese restaurant. I had Diesel to drink. Diesel is Becks beer mixed with coke. Can we say SUPER yummy??????????????? I may have to try it when we get home. This was the first German beer I’ve tried and I think I’m hooked. (-: After supper, we came back to the hostel and just hung out in the room and showed Sabsi some of the pictures we’ve taken on holiday. I can’t believe that we’ve been here for 2 weeks and we’ve seen more of the country than she’s seen. She’s lived here her entire live! *Poke poke poke Sabsi!*
Berlin was everything I thought it would be and more. I can’t wait to see what we do tomorrow. (-:
Me