Getting lost in Berlin

So Monday we all went to Berlin for the entire day. It started out in the morning with a long train ride.

The weather wasn't all that great. It was pretty muggy, cloudy, wet and windy. The "bad hairday" type of weather.

We started off with a tour that took around 2 hours that brought us to multiple places in the Berlin government section. We saw the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag and the big house where the chancellor lives and all that. It was pretty cool. All the buildings are fairy modern since almost everything was rebuild after the war and after the division of Berlin. I thought seeing the Rechstag was really cool because it's the only actual place I've been to that I've seen in a video game I've played before. Last mission of COD5 World At War. Alex knows what I'm talking about.

We also got to see the Jewish memorial. That was really cool.

That's what it looks like. It's crazy how lost you can get in that thing. I got lost in it for a little bit, but was able to find everyone eventually. A few of the other people did get lost however and I had to do the "Follow the sound of my voice" trick to help them get out. It was funny.

After that we got to see the Potsdamer Plotz. It had pieces of the old Berlin Wall there that was pretty cool. You could tell how much the Germans hate the wall because there's gum all over the wall.

After that we were able to do whatever we wanted in Berlin. This is where things got interesting...

It was me and a few other Americans. We first got Subway to eat and then tried to make our way to Checkpoint Charlie. We got lost the first attempt and had to turn around and try again, which took us over an hour. We finally made it to Checkpoint Charlie and took some pictures of what we could...

After that we spent over an hour trying to find our way to the KaDeWe which is one of the biggest shopping malls in the entire world. We got very lost. Our feet were killing us. We only got to go in there for a few minutes before having to find a way to get back to the train station so we wouldn't miss our train back. Of course one of the people in our group decided he had to buy something there just to "say he bought something there" and ended up taking another 10+ minutes. We debated for another 5 minutes or so on how to get back until I saw taxi's go by and suggested that. We had to take 2 taxi's to the train station since no taxi's took more than 4 people and we had 5.

We were finally able to get to the train station though with enough time to spare so everything ended happily ever after.