almost to Barcelona!

Hi all!

By the time I send this we will be in Barcelona! Ahhh!! Only 9 more days left of our European adventure!! So crazy! It took us about two hours to get to the airport today when it should've taken 30 minutes. Something happened with the direct train we were supposed to take so we ended up taking about six different trains before we finally made it to the airport! It was ridiculous! Thank goodness we met a chock that spoke English and she helped us along the way. Whew! Good thing we left earlier than we were going to and that we had a later flight otherwise we would've been in trouble!!

We had a great time in Berlin! I think it might be my favorite city so far! The city was big but quiet and everyone was pretty friendly! We had a great hostel that had a bar in it with good food and somewhat cheap beer, so that was nice. I just had an awful time getting to sleep last night, super loud people and the bed was growing in discomfort, it felt like a pull out couch, so I might have gotten three hours of sleep. Blehk. I was grumpy this morning and the train issues sure didn't help! It's also pretty hot here and not too many things are air conditioned, so I'm not used to that! But all in all Berlin was awesome!

We got here on Friday and were able to get on a bus and off almost right in front  of our hostel, so that was a nice change! We got a burger and beer for 5€ at our hostel bar! It was pretty tasty! After that we walked along the river, to museum island, stumbled upon this really cool graffiti and art gallery. It was two buildings and about five stories in each one of just art! It was pretty amazing. We were pretty tired from the train ride so we decided to go see a movie! We went to one movie theatre, but they didn't have it in English so we had to rush to another one via metro! We made it! They make you buy certain seats in the theaters here, so that was interesting! Also, before the movie starts they have commercials, like ours, except there was an ice cream commercial and then people came out and sold ice cream!! It was ridiculous! Then the previews started! It was pretty silly.

Saturday we went on a four hour walking tour! It was a great time and we learned so much about Berlin and Germany, it was more than I've learned in my schooling that's for sure! We got Tory's favorite new thing for dinner, a noodlebox! They make all different varieties! We want to open one in Berkeley! Anywho, after that we wanted to watch the big Chelsea vs Munich soccer game and there was a Munich restaurant down the road that we had seen the night before. It was crazy packed! People had reservations for tables so people like me and Tory had to wait in a line to get in that was barely moving! Anywho, we finally got in and when the people we were supposed to be sharing the table with showed up they had brought 10 people instead of their 8, so Tory and I were kicked off the table! We tried asking other people if we could sit with them but they wouldn't let us. Finally we were able to sit down with these other people our age and they were nicer. All of the people in there were Munich fans, so I think they thought we were Chelsea fans. We drank liters of beer which were HUGE!! Munich lost the game, which was super sad because that meant that Chelsea had taken fourth place from Tottenham as well. :( we were very upset about the loss. To make ourselves feel better Tory had a currywurst on the way home and I had fries with mayo. I can't stop eating the combination, I can feel all of the weight I'm gaining! Ahhhhh!!!

Sunday we walked around the huge park in between east and west Berlin. It was beautiful!! Afterwards we went to the Jewish memorial museum. It was pretty sad, but good to see. We then had a picnic in the park. Took a train to the east side gallery of art on the Berlin wall, that was pretty awesome! Later we went out to eat and I had amazing pasta with Chilli sauce and Tory had a sausage.

Monday we went to the soviet soldier memorial, it was huge! Then we walked thru the east side neighborhood for a while. Had another picnic and when I say picnic, this is food we took from the hostel. :) for dinner we had falafel plates! They were amazing!! Yum! We liked them a whole bunch!

Well I guess that's about it! We
Made it to Barcelona and are gonna go grab some food!

Love and miss you all!
Jenn