Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Deutschland!

So my dad and my younger brother Brett had a "Dad and Lad" trip to Germany planned for a while and then the traveling daughter/sister decided to crash their trip! Yeehaw!
Actually, they had a good few days of male/bonding over liters of Pilsner beers that flow like the rivers there. And then I crashed it!

We had a great time seeing the sites like the lazy American tourists we are!
We spent most of our time together in Berlin and spent most of that time rollin the streets with our phat beach-cruiser bikes. The most perfect way to see the city, truly!
We all had enough history lessons of Germany to last us a lifetime! But so interesting- from the near-total destruction of the city after WWII to the Berlin Wall separating a city into 2 completely different cities, one under communist rule, to JFK declaring that he too is a jelly donut. We even saw the window of the hotel that Michael Jackson dangled that baby out of! (Highlight of trip for sure!)

We drank lots of beer, bought ridiculous souvenirs (my dad's Russian military hat that airport security made him wear for fun), ate sausages and soft pretzels and sauerkraut and other real German treats and even got fully cussed out by a German woman in her car (not effective- just made us laugh uncontrollably.)

Anyways, we had lots of fun and laughed a whole lot (mostly at the Germans.) It was so great to be back with family. And in out motherland too!

Thank you Germany for the good times!

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