Berlin

OK, I have to make this post quick since our hostel owners want us off the internet soon (its after 11pm). Our last day in Munich we went to the BMW museum first off. I can sum it up in one word: shiny! It was pretty cool, and very fun to see the perturbed staff members when someone touched one of the cars and left a fingerprint smudge. Then we went briefly to the English Gardens, but the weather started to get bad, so not much time was spent there. It reminded me a lot of Vondelpark in Amsterdam. Then for about an hour we huddles under the storefront of an expensive cafe while it poured. When the rain slowed a bit an showed no sign of stopping soon we made our way back into the main part of town and got a late lunch. I had the best piece of tirimisu of my life....I drool thinking about it. Then we went to the Residence Museum and treasury, thecrown jewels were quite impressive as you would think and the free audioguide was actually interesting. But the actual Residence was ENORMOUS and we had to pick up the pace and skip some rooms so we could make it to the glockenspeil (sp?) by 5pm. The German staff in the museum got pretty ticked with us when we skipped some rooms and therefore went out of order (gasp!) and were even more offended when we said we needed to leave before 5. They kept pointing out that it was open until 6. The glockenspeil show was honestly no great shakes, BUT it was in that same square that a huge Gay and Lesbian Day parade and festival was taking place and we hung out mostly there until our 11pm night train. We breifly went over to a kids park and had lots of fun on the seesaw and some spinning thing. Tons of good pictures from that. Then back to the festival to see some singing groups. We listened to Scream Club, a lesbian duo from the USA and Zeitgeist, a German group which opened their act by having one member shirtless, greased up, and throwing a lightbulb around himself. It was awesome.

Then the night train to Berlin. I actually slept pretty well, yay Dramamine! Steve didnt sleep at all. We got into Berlin at 7am and promptly took naps until the afternoon. This evening we got curryworst at Curry 36 and then went to checkpoint Charlie. I have to get offline now, so more about that later.