Berlin

A quick morning post, it has been a slower morning around here today hanging in the hostel, comptuer time, cleaning up and a little sink laundry! Jetting up to Stockholm tonight, leaving Berlin about 10 pm and Sandra picking us up at the airport up North at midnight!

We caught a really good free walking tour, about 4 hours long, yesterday morning. Through out we met English speakers from all over the world and saw, ah hard to use these keyboards! the Berlin Wall, stood on Hitlers Bunker, went to Checkpoint Charlie, saw the Hotel Adler next to Embassys from around the world where Michael Jackson was caught holding the baby over the railing, the US Embassy that was just moved and opened this 4th of July. I guess they wanted a more secure place and asked the city of Berlin to move the whole street, with the Berlin wall shown in stone in it and Brandenburg Gate; the gateway between East and West Germany, so there wasn#t a public street so close. Berlin refused and the US finally decided to move in anyway this summer. We saw the Reichstag, Book Burning memorial where the Nazis burned tens of thousands of books they dissagreed with and the Humbolt University where Eintein taught for 20 years and 28 Nobel Prize winners graduated from, and now they sell the books that were burning in the Book Burning everyday infront of the university. Then we saw Potsdamer Platz, Museum Island and more! sorry the punctuation bad, this keyboard VERY different, cant find it all...
Afterwards we saw the Pergamon Museum with one of the 7 wonders of the world, all the Antiquity Collections of statues and art from BC... We are picking up a few german words and figuring out the Bus and underground subway type systems!.figured out by taking a good portion of them, often for 1 or 2 stops before figuring out we were not going where we thought or wanted and therefore have seen MUCH more of the city than planned haha.
Apparently the President of Germany lives on Pucklerstraße where we are!!! Therefore the houses and secutiry around here is intense. Weve learned things like your pointer to show the number one at home often means 2 here, meaning we got 2 orders of fries with 2 forks last night and such...
Time to check out, trying to figure out where our airport is for later and if we can or shoudl leave our bags here at the hostel or carry them all day.

Christa and Josh