Willkomen! We made it to Germany today! Wahoo! We had to drive 6 hours today from Amsterdam to Berlin which was kinda tiring but fun too because there was some pretty scenery along the way. Since I am the child that cannot drive a stick shift I had to be on passenger patrol and chose not to sleep the whole way so I could keep my “parents” company while they drove! When we got in to Germany, yet again no exciting big signage for us to take a picture of we had to use the restrooms so we pulled off to a rest stop because Germany actually has restrooms for people to use, what a relief now we can drink water without paranoia that we will pee our pants because we wont be able to find a water closet (what they are called here)! When we got to the girls restroom a man walked out and told us “go not in there” in a jumbled accent and had a horrified look on his face, DAMN the man stinkin up the ladies bathroom. Deciding to take his word for it we went behind the building into humongous bushes and decided to all take turns poppin a squat and of course we had to take pictures because it was pretty damn funny to see us all take turns and trying not to fall over or get stabbed by the prickly bush that we decided to hide behind. We stopped for lunch later in the day and when we sat down not only could we not understand ANYTHING on the menu because because clearly we speak ZERO German but the server did not speak any English at all so we were pretty much flying by the seat of our pants ordering food. Jenna and Nathalie ordered pizza because it was one of the only things we could figure out and I ordered a kids meal schnitzel erbsen which I really didn’t know what it was but ended up being alright and it was one of the things I wanted to try while in Germany. During the drive Jenna also kept commenting on how she wanted to meet a Nazi and how every was looking Nazi’ish, we just laughed at her randomness. The people in Germany drive like MAD MEN! We were driving like almost 100 mph and people were flying by us like we were geriatric drivers for sure! We also experienced our first McCafe which is a starbucks like place inside McDonalds where Jenna was ecstatic to get her first iced coffee, she was literally like a kid in a candy shop. I was about to try my newly acquired German speaking skills to the lady at McCafe to order our coffees and this delicious chocolate cake but I got nervous and chickened out. We made it to Germany by around 6 and during the drive through Deutschland like I said I acquired a fabulous German accent and was able to pronounce every word we passed by and proceeded to say everything I saw in German, I think I might have been German in a past life because I love speaking the language! I really want to get a translator app on my phone for German because I want to be able to translate some of these random weird words because its so hard to figure out what this language means. Also not as many people here speak English so we have struggled a couple times, one time being at the internet café when I went in to ask what time they closed and he had no idea what I was saying even when I was flailing my arms around trying to explain closing by acting like I was closing a door and then looking at my watch and every possible body motion I could muster to try and explain closing. Finally a nice lady translated because she could tell I was running out of ideas and the man just kept looking more and more confused and asking me over and over “you want computer?” and me saying no. Once we checked in to our hotel we went to dinner on one of the Platz at this outdoor café that was packed! The world cup started yesterday and there was like 8-10 large plasma screen tvs lined up outside the café where everyone could watch the game, it was such a cool environment and the weather was absolutely beautiful so it was a great evening. I had the second thing that I wanted to try while in Germany which was German sausage and it was absolutely delicious! We also enjoyed some German beer which was quite enjoyable too. We made some pretty hilarious flip videos today while driving and we also had some good laughs while we deliriously drove through the Netherlands and in to Germany. We were in two countries in one day, pretty cool we thought and we are so excited to be in Berlin and to be able to learn about all this history in this city. Long day of sightseeing tommorow, will hopefully be full of fabulous info when I return to blogging tommorow! Goodnacht!
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