They're having a grand old two for one time!

This is an appendix to the below post so get yourself caught up before you read any further. Because my posts are like Harry Potter and if you read the second one before the first one it's like...well, you'll still understand it I guess but you'll miss half the fun.

So anyways, we finally made it to the Berlin Wall, where there was an exhibit with tons of information on the war and Hitler's rise to power. It was all very interesting, and weird to see pictures of Nazi troops standing in the exact spot where we just ate a waffle...(See, I'm referencing the below post so you feel like you're missing out if you haven't read it. HA!)

After the wall, we went back to the Hostel to clean up and go to dinner. We went to eat at this amazing little Southern Restaurant called the Louisiana Kid, which amused me because since we had been in Germany all day we had only consumed generic Italian and American food (we had Pizza for lunch earlier). The dinner was delicious and afterwards, we were drawn into a bar called Susan's because the girl outside (who turned out to be Susan herself! although we affectionately called her Suzie) advertised a two-for-one drink special. We ordered two Sex on the Beach's, courtest of our new Bartender friend Dave, and some of us (and by some of us, I mean me) got completely drunk after a second round of what I can only describe as a gallon of alcohol with a splash of juice. We got hit on by some British guys (haha) in town for a bachelor party who bought us shots and called Camille a "cheeky Bastard", and then went home for the night. When we got back to the Hostel, we drank a bit more with the other people staying there (they were playing Kings in the common room, how could we resist?) and then went to sleep.

Drink and a fruit salad!

We woke up the next morning with plans to walk the city again and see what interested us, stopping at a few shops along the way to get some souvenirs. Eventually, we made our way to the "Jew Museum", which was something that I had planned on us doing while in Berlin. The museum was very interesting, and we spent a good two or three hours looking around. I thought it was only going to be about the Holocaust and the history of WWII, but it was actually about extensive Jewish History. The museum was also very interactive, which made it more fun. There was a section with big foam Hebrew letters that asked you to spell out words, and when I completed it successfully, Camille was shocked to learn that I do, in fact, read Hebrew. You learn something new everyday, Camille...this Jew is FULL of surprises.


After the Jewish Museum, we searched high and low for the Holocaust Memorial which turned out to be a huge bust. It was literally like 200 concrete cubes of all different heights, with no inscriptions on them or symbolic meaning. It cost 27 million euros to make and when the architect was asked what it meant he actually said that he didn't want to "give it away" because he wanted people to "draw there own meaning from it." Bull shit. He didn't know, so he wanted to see if we could figure something out to make him look good. The thing was a piece of crap. You killed all those people, and then spent all their money to honor them with something that reminds me a shocking amount of Stonehenge (God, what another piece of shit no one should waste their time seeing...)


Anyways, after the anger over the memorial wore off, we ventured on to have dinner at McDonalds, (which is like a legit restaurant in Europe) and then walked back to Susan's for drinks. We were both exhausted since we had walked about 15 miles in two days and also, someone in our room at the hostel snored and farted in their sleep while wearing questionably small tighty wighties. After drinks, we said our goodbyes to our new friends at Susan's and headed home to sleep. Since we were waking up at different times to leave Berlin, Camille and I said our goodbyes before we went to bed. They would have been filled with sadness if I didn't know I was seeing her in TWO WEEKS in London! WOO HOO!

More exciting posts to come for sure despite the fact that I am currently sick with bronchitus as a result of a long and strenuous weekend. Paris on Friday with Katie and Vanessa, which obviously means my next entry will be just as long because I am continuing the game (another reference from previous post, HA!). I realize I forgot to end the last post with my usual sign off so,

Cheers!