Berlin
First I want to say that I successfully made sugar cookies, even though we had to do some research to figure out how dense sugar, butter, and flour are. I never even thought about that because I guess cups and tablespoons account for all of that. Why does cooking need to be so difficult here? It's already pretty difficult for me anyways.
On Friday morning we took a train to Berlin. We saw the German Bundestag, which is the parliament building where they make all the laws. But Merkel was not there that day :)
We went on top where there is a huge glass dome and got to see a view of Berlin, but unfortunately the weather was typical of Germany: cloudy and gray.
We saw pieces of the wall and where the wall used to stand, and visited the Brandenburg Gate.
We saw the Holocaust Memorial which is just a lot of cement blocks ?? and went to the Jewish Museum because I read it was good, but it was a bit boring. I rode on my first subway.
We went to see the Blue Man Group that evening, which was pretty fun. Some of the stuff was in German so I didn't understand, but luckily most of it did not involve speaking. It was a pretty good show!
I had to use the restroom at a shopping center, which cost 30 cents. It was the weirdest experience I've ever had. These two women had us all line up and were barking orders at us, to tell us when we could go into the bathroom or to wait. I also got yelled at for trying to use more than one paper towel. I don't really understand the need to police us while we use the bathroom.
The next day after we were finished sight-seeing, we woke up to blue skies and sunshine, on the day when we wouldn't be taking pictures. Of course. We did a bit of shopping but were kind of tired from all of the walking the day before so we caught an early train home. We were in a compartment next to some very noisy people who sounded like they were having a party on the train. I will never get used to seeing people drinking beer in public.