Last day in Berlin!!!

Hello children of America!!!

Well, today is our last day in Berlin, and it was a blast, for the most part. 6-29-08 Matt, Tyler, and I slept in till around 10am again this morning. We all got up, showered, checked out, and headed out to the zoo. We got to our train stop at around 11 am. We stopped at an imbiss and had 1? curry wurst, I had 1.15? currywurst and brötchen. It is was tasty. Matthew and I went back to return his shirt, and realized that it is a sunday, and no stores are open on Sunday. Boo. We were not amused!

After that fiasco, we headed on to the zoo. It was 9? for students, so we went in and basically spent the entire day till 6:00 or so at the zoo. It was wonderful. It was a days worth of entertainment, and the Berliner Zoo is definately a must see when you are in Berlin. We saw Knut the Berlin zoo adopted polar bear. My mother and I saw him last summer when he was still a baby, well I can say he is bigeer now. Not huge, he's only about a year older, but he is no baby any more. We saw bears, (brown, black, polar, sun, etc), White Wolfs, Elephants, Giraffs, fish, all types of antelope, horses, camels, leopards, lions, pumas, a tiger, hundreds of birds, alpachas, llamas, huge guinea pig type thing (that the german translation for is like giant fur pig. lol, except it isn't a pig), bats, kangaroos, wallabies, a sloth, a huge orangutan, chimpanzees, baboons, a panda, etc. I think you get the idea that there is a lot to see.

Since we didn't eat anything there, except for me, I was so hungry I broke down and had a 2.30? ice cream thingy, we got outta there, went to a local grocery store that was open, basically all day, bought some beer, chips, pudding, water, and... for like 4?. Then we went and bought a huge thing of noodles for 3.50?. The food we bought at the store is for the train and then lunch tomorrow. The noodles lasted us for lunch and will for sure last for dinner as well. We went to the tier garten, had 2 beers and ate some food, while I told my really awful jokes that basically have no punch line. lol, like Randy the rooster, and all of" A Belgian in Heaven" jokes. My mother will appreciate that. lol. They thought the jokes were dumb, and they were, lol, but we laughed at them anyway.

Afterwards, our bladders were bursting and we needed to get seats for the game tonight! The European Meister Fußball Tournament (Master Soccer Tournament) with Germany vs. Spain for the Euro cup!!!! We are so excited. The game hasn't started yet, it is supposed to start at 8:45, it is currently almost 8pm. After the game, we are getting our luggage and catching our train to cologne, then to Andernach.

Matt and I will probably go straight from Andernach to Höhr-grenzhausen to buy pottery for my mommy. Afterwards we will come home to Mayen, talk with our families, and re-pack for our flight on tuesday. It is so close we can almost taste it! We are so excited to see everyone when we get home. I will try to blog tomorrow, but if I don't I am sure you will understand why.

I plan to still post pictures of our later travels once I get back into the states, so even after tuesday, keep checking the blog, because we will be pasting picture pages from Jena, Dresden, and Berlin!!! We love and miss you all and look forward to seeing you soon!!!! Biss Dann! ;) Emily