A Day of Rest

Sunday, October 5

As you can all imagine, Sunday was SO calm in comparison to Saturday, but then again what wouldn't be?

(our "6" person room)

We woke up around 9 am to say good-bye to everyone (and to get their money for the hotel) and it was surprisingly sad. Despite any anxiety we might have had about the group meshing we ended up having a wonderful time. But alas, we are here to study so everyone had to depart from their respected cities.

Anyways, being Sunday in a small Bavarian town there weren't any bakeries opened so we had to settle for breakfast at the hotel (which ended up costing us 13 euro a piece) and then we checked out which involved a lot of screaming in English and German as they tried to pile on random charges. Which we kind of expected but didn't take any of it!

So we hopped on the train and went to lock up our bags in the Hauptbahnhof where we ran into some more Wake Forest people and I saw the bakery were Daddy and I ate when we were in Munich (which we had seen the day before as well!).

(Remember Daddy?)

McKinley and I (as well as some of her guy friends from the Venice house) made our way to Marianplatz just in time to see the Glockenspiel (when the figurines on the tower dance around) and McKin and I met up with Mattea!!! It was so wonderful to met up with her after having not seen her in 4 years and so great to catch up!

After taking up to San Fransicso Coffee Company, Mattea walked us into the English Garten and then had to leave to go to work. It was a short but sweet time with her and now she's talking about coming to visit me in Berlin!!!

(I know I say this in almost every post, but the leaves make me miss NC like whoa!)

Anyway, McKinley and I wonder our way through the English Garten until we got the Chinesicher Turm which is in the center of the garden. And after taking some pictures and scratching some things off our list of to dos we headed to the Olympis Park where we continued to wander and leisurely looked at the site of the 1972 Olympic Games (including the pool)! We also poked our heads into the BMW museum just because we could.

(Olympic Park)

We found a cool little place to eat lunch and had a wonderful conversation just catching up on life. Believe it or not we still have alot of getting to know each other to do...I guess that's what happens when you become attached at the hips over the phone in the middle of the summer....

We walked around a little bit more but then decided that the airport was probably going to be a mess and that we were tired so we headed to the airport a little bit earlier than anticipated and we began to plan McKin's three days in Berlin! Which caused us to squeal alot and annoy everyone around us. So after making some plans and McKinley spilling water all over herself we boarded the plane for a 50 minute flight back to Berlin. The rain and cold greeted us so we decided to splurge for a taxi to Kreuzberg which in hindsight was the best decision we've made in a while. But here we are, back in Berlin and I'm so so so excited to finally get to show someone around my city!!

Oh yea, and I'm so mad! At some point yesterday I ripped a hole in my only good pair of jeans here. wunderbar!