Berlin 2

For the purposes of continuing the story, I will call the guy whom NO ONE HAS GUESSED YET "Jared". But please guess who it is because this will get annoying.

As there were several requests to know what we saw on our walking tour, I will mention that we walked along the only standing section of the Berlin Wall, saw Checkpoint Charlie where many incidents of trying to sneak between East and West Berlin occurred, stood above Adolf Hitler's former bunker (now mostly filled in), and saw the Brandenburg Gate.

Funny story: on top of the Brandenburg Gate, there is a statue of a goddess of Victory. Actually, it had been a goddess of peace when Napoleon stole it from the Germans in the early 1800s. But when Germany took it back, they replaced the olive branch with a spear and turned the statue's head to stare directly at the French embassy. Then they renamed the square in front of the gate Parisier Platz. A nice fuck you from the Germans to the French.

The second day of Berlin, we hit up the river to get amazing crepes, cheap beer, and access to a five person paddle boat which was awesome except for when we nearly got run over buy a seaplane which landed right next to us. After Rob's sunglasses fell into the river we decided to go to the museum district to see one of the 7 ancient wonders of the world - the Ishtar Gate. It was quite impressive. Taking pictures was prohibited but not if you played the innocent tourist card, which is precisely what Jared and Robert did. But we had to leave and high tail it over to the start of an amazingly notable pub crawl where ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAPPENED.*

That pretty much wraps up the night. No one did anything inside of a bar or went to the hospital.