What There's Alot of in Berlin

1. Döner Kebaps-There's at least 3 on every block.
   
2. Playgrounds-with huge, scary slides and water pumps, there are three just on our block
   
3. Currywurst stands- every from the U-Bahn to the lakeside
4. Bakeries and Cafes-yum!!
5. Flea markets and farmers markets-so much stuff!!
   
6. People- German, Turkish, English, Muslim, Jewish, French, Russian...
7. Graffiti- It covers every possible surface
   
8. Beautiful Old Buildings-Wow!!
9. Weird, random things-?????
10. Bike Paths-we can ride all over the city. There are even special turning lanes for bikes.
11. Lakes- Germany is full of them!!!
12. Kleingarten colonies-read about them on my Gin+Gelato!

We're having really fun, but I miss u all in the U.S. You all have to come visit soon!!!

Our first full day in Berlin

Today, I woke up at 10 a.m. in the room Lydia and me are sharing and ate a croissant from one of many bakeries one block down. Me and Lydia and my dad went to the store and got some stuff called Musli. You can eat it cooked and uncooked. It will be for breakfast.

Then we ate lunch.

It was a salad, nothing big. Then we brought Princess to the vet, which took forever. We got out of the vet at about dinnertime so we went to a stand and ate currywurst, which are sausages with curry on them. Then we came home and ate smoked fish, bread and salad.

Our First 2 Days in Berlin

Two nights ago, we got onto a big plane in Denver, lugging our enormous bags, not really sure if we wanted to or not. It was a long plane ride to London, but British Airways made us comfortable and we just watched movies most of the time. the rest of the time we slept and ate the very...interesting airplane food they served. But soon, we were flying over the red roofs of London and arriving at Heathrow airport.

After flying the short flight to Berlin, we retrieved our many bags and bike just to have to carry them all to the taxi. We drove through the city, the whole time staring at the forest like park and many bikers along the highway. Wow. Berlin isn't exactly what we expected.

We were soon at the apartment, and got settled in, took a look around the neighborhood, and I got to Skype a few friends. That was nice. I love Skype!!!! I got to talk to my friends in Colorado, and it's all for free! I'll probably be doing that a lot. We then fell asleep and ten, and i woke up in the room Elena and I are sharing at ten. We all have a little bit of Jetlag. Here's a picture of the room. And that's our apartment refrigerator (it's not REALLY on it's side like that).



These are some of the things I did today:

- Ate a croissant for breakfast
- Saw Princess (our dog) for the first time since the day before yesterday, because she had been on a different plane from Colorado. She was traumatized.
- Walked to the supermarket and got cheese, organic lettuce, apricots, musli and bread from the bakery for 10 euros.
- Walked to the park and played on the really cool zip line and rope course.
- Went to a "Currywurst" stand and got good sausages to eat there.
- Saw alot of graffiti.
- Went into this huge store that had smoked fish (alot), olives, alot of cheese, alot of
meat and sausages, wine, a deli where you ate standing up, and alot of other stuff too.















Some Cool Grafitti
The Currywurst