Berlin

Berlin, Germany: The group arrived at Hotel California in the afternoon. The city looked to be promising from the walk to the hotel. The buildings looked sleek and powerful. On Monday, I visited the Berlin Zoo, which is acclaimed as the premier zoo in the world. There was no denying that. We witnessed just about every animal I can think of. Here are some of my pictures from the Berlin Zoo:

We returned to the hotel to meet with the entire group for the Checkpoint Charlie Museum and the tour of the Berlin Wall. Checkpoint Charlie was the geographical focal point of the Cold War.

Afterwards, we walked past the Holocaust Memorial, where Hitler’s body lies. Brett, Zach, Kuhn, Red, and I caught a public double-decker bus back to our hotel’s area.

At night, five of us went to a club called Maxxim. Red’s birthday began at midnight so we celebrated. The club included a poker tournament that was still going on when we arrived. We danced the night away until the break of dawn. It was a very good night.

The next day was not very easy. I did not sleep before going to the Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin, which was part of Computer Science 101. It was an interesting museum and I managed to keep together and learn, but afterwards I had to rest. For dinner, I ate at the Hard Rock Café. The food was very good and I noticed that the coasters were advertising an Aerosmith concert in London when we were going to be there. I was definitely going to try to get tickets.