October 30, 2009

Today we left Hof and headed by van to Berlin. Upon arrival, Dena, Ryan and I walked past the Reichstag, through the Brandenburg Gate, and over to the Jewish Memorial.

From there I went my own way and accidentally ended up at the Hamburger Banhof Museum für Gegenwart where I ran into Ryan and Dena twice.

Since it was fate, we left together. I once again separated from the pack and went to the Museum für Naturkunde. My favorite find there was a familiar fossil from Texas.

From there I headed to one of the shopping districts and checked out Gallerie Lafayette, the French department store. I also had a delicious chili hot chocolate. I continued down the street and happened upon a MINI Cooper shop. There was a MINI on the wall and it said “Checkpoint MINI.”

I went inside and browsed all the MINI gear. I then continued down the street to Checkpoint Charlie and met up with Dena, Deanea, and Ryan.

We went to see some of the Berlin Wall, hug a Berlin Bear and then we ate dinner at Cancun Café.

I had nachos! After dinner we took the S-bahn to our hotel.