Berlin

Hallo Berliners!

We are here in Berlin as of this morning! We got up super early (thanks to Gisela and Richard for waking up so early when they unusually sleep in until 10am) :) and took a train from Oldenburg to Hannover and then to Berlin. We met the Australian Team from District 9650 and have toured with them all day. On the train we exchanged money and saw how different the money was. They invented a "plastic" sort of money! It can go through the wash and not tear AT ALL. Wow By the way I love this Aussie accent :)!!!!

Anyway we arrive in Berlin and have a great time getting to and checking in at the hotel. A small taxi full of four persons with luggage driving through Berlin is ...whew ... tight. anyway we have a small snack and go on a Historical Tour of "older" Berlin. His name was Jan and he just finished his schooling at Humboldt university in History and Sports to teach high school.
He was wonderful. Not too much historical (boring) information and just in
interesting facts to make it fun. The day was beautiful and the temperature was about 95 degrees. We started in East Berlin (our hotel is in old East Berlin) and walked for about 3 hours ending at the Brandenburg Gate and the Jewish Holocaust Memorial. By this time we were all tired and so we headed back to the hotel.




We met at 715pm to have dinner at Vivolo, a wonderful tappas restaurant. We sat and ate and talked for hours :) Much wine and beer and jokes! Wonderful time was had by all :)

Ich bin sehr mueder (I am very tired)