Anna's first day in Berlin....Almost Kyla's last.

Saturday March 22nd.
(Kate.)
Kyla and I woke up early (after a somewhat late night) to get the train to Berlin to welcome Anna and also to see Kyla off. We met Robbie, the Englishman, (on his way to Mallorca) at the train station and hopped on. Unfortunately, Kyla and I were in 1st class, separated from the riff-raff of the world and Robbie, well, he didn't quite make the cut. So we had to meet in the middle at the BordBistro. Kyla slept soundly the ENTIRE train trip while I challenged myself with fun little mathmatical equations, pondered the meaning of life, and read a little Nietzsche.
We arrived in Berlin and checked into our hotel, Hotel Bellmondo, a lovely hotel right between Bahnhof Zoo and Ku-Damm. We wasted our time until Anna arrived with coffee, shoe browsing, and napping.

Then we got on the X9 to Tegel and waited at the airport until Anna arrived.
She came right on time and we got right back on the bus back to Bahnhof Zoo. We dropped Anna's bags off at the hotel and went out for pizza on Kurfuerstendamm. After pizza we went to the IrishPub in the Europacenter for a drink.

I ENJOYED a few drinks.

(Anna.)
I arrived safely to my final destination, after two airplane rides and not many problems, albeit one couple deciding to get a divorce on that Minneapolis-Amsterdam flight. It is rather long, so I can understand problems arising.
I came out of my gate in Berlin to see two smiling faces that I was so happy to see! Kate and Kyla were there waiting for me, and made me feel so excited to be here finally. I waited for my luggage and we made it out of the airport with ease. After a short bus ride we were at the super cute hotel and we dropped my stuff of, all the while Kate was flirting with boys. All that while, Kyla and I just rolled our eyes. We went to dinner at pizza, and I learned the common practice of Germans everwhere: Stare at everyone possible and make all Americans feel really awkward. There was a family sitting about 25 inches from us and the dad stared the entire time. So weird. After pizza we went to the bar where Kate decided to demolish Kyla and me in drinking her "Snake Bite" and then she got bored with us so we finished (and by that, I mean Kate finished my drink) and went back to the hotel to crash. But first of course, we stopped at the grocery store so I could get my favorite thing ever: chocolate. All in all, a great first night.