June 4 - Goodbye Berlin!

I guess it's a little strange to take a guided tour of the city after you've been there for three days, but that's what we did and I highly recommend it. Free World Tours has walking (and biking, though there's no way you'd get me on a bike for three hours) tours of a lot of popular world cities and the one of Berlin was not a disappointment. Out guide was a woman named Charly and she took a group of about 40 of us around the city and while some of them were repeats for me, it was great to hear the history. I mean, we went past Brandenburg Tor, the Reichstag, the Hotel where Michael Jackson dangled his baby Blanket out the window, and even stood over the place where Hitler's bunker used to be located. Plus not only was the guide informative, she was really funny and even when we were surrounded by trucks and construction, managed to make herself heard for the majority of the time. And even better? JESSICA WAS TAKING THE TOUR TOO! That's right, due to a total coincidence Jessica and her friend Caitlyn were also taking the walking tour, so I got to spend the day with some really great people. Apparently my summer tradition will not go totally unbroken, for while I didn't get to go out for a day with Jenny, Jessica and Liz all together, I did get to go out with each one of them at least once.

Nice.

At the end of the tour we got our hand stamped so we could get a discount on the Pub Crawl tour that they had, and I'm really excited about it. I don't really drink but I wanted the chance to see the Berlin nightlife and I think this will be the best way.

Well we didn't got out to the pub crawl, but we had some fun all on our own. Lian, Laura, Aaron, Ashley and I decided that even though it was a Monday night and both Aaron and Ashley had homework, we would go explore some of the happy hour specials in Berlin. We decided to end the night right at BR 101, a little Jamaican/Brazillian place that had 3 Euro cocktails. Wonderful! I had two very yummy drinks (though I don't think Tequila will ever be my favorite alocohol. All in all it was a great way to spend our last evening in Berlin before we set out for the bulk of our trip.