Busy, Busy!!

I've got a few days to catch up on!

Well, Sunday I come downstairs on time and went on the walking tour that I missed the other day. Unfortunately it was raining on and off the whole time. Fortunately, I met some really cool people! Eemaam, a girl from India (though she goes to school in London) who was staying at the same hostel as me and Mark, form London who was staying at a nearby hostel. We walked together during the 3 1/2 hour walking tour which, because of our enthusiastic guide, turned into a 4 1/2 our walking tour.

We visited places like the Brandenburg Tor, the Holocaust Memorial (The rain seemed fitting here and I took some really poignant pictures), the unmarked site of Hitler's Bunker, one of the only Nazi buildings to survive to today, Checkpoint Charlie, the Square where thousands of books were burnt and now there is an empty bookshelf underground for all the books (there is a plexiglass window in the square for you to look down) and various other places. It was absolutely fascinating! While on the tour Eemaam, Mark and I decided to go one a pub crawl later that night.

So after the tour, which ended at like 4:30, we all went back to our hostels. I grabbed food and took a nap, annnnndddd overslept. Big surprise. So I threw on my clothes and quickly did my hair, etc. and ran downstairs. Thankfully Eemaam took a nap and woke up late too. We hurried to the coffeeshop to meet up with the pup crawl tour guide. While there we met Ramsey, also form London, and Hilary (the first other American i'd met so far). The guide then took us to the first place at around 8:45, which was this really cool bar with East Berlin paraphernalia all over the walls. We drank German beer and had some Jagermeister shots. The second bar was in the red light district and the guide told the boys in our group not to bother the prostitutes cause they all carry mace and they will use it. Here, Eemaam and I chatted with some guys from Argentina. The third bar was called Silberfisch; it was really small but fun. The fourth bar was called Zapata had a Latin band playing, which was great to dance to. We also ran into a really cool Australian who was on our pup crawl (I can't remember but I think his name was Ross?) There was the option of going to a club after this bar. Our guides only request was that we, "wear our sober faces" for the bouncer. This place was awesome! Matrix (the club) had a fairly large dance floor and an amazing DJ!! WHen we got there he was playing remixs of classic 90's songs like Spice Girls and Michael Jackson then the music evolved into current hits. I think we danced for like 2 hours straight. At about 3:30 we decided it would be best if we took a cab home. All six of us piled in the cab and annoyed the hell out of the cab driver on the way home.