A little of Berlin...

So as I predicted, I'm not always the best at updating the blog. Since getting to Berlin there hasn't been a lot of wifi for me to use and I've only been in my hotel to change, shower, and sleep.

Berlin was absolutely amazing! I had learned about most of Berlin's history through history but it really comes alive once your there. The city had been completely bombed back in World War II but everything had been reconstructed and the city looks great. You can tell where some statues and buildings were effected by bombs and shots and other war like activity by often a white spot on the building which means that it was filled in.
I also found the history of the Berlin Wall and the split between East and West Berlin to be amazing. I know that I learned the basics, but when you're learning history in school, that is a period of time that is fairly close to the present and often waited to touch upon all the way until the end of May (the very end of the school year) and you find that your teacher is crunching in only the important and basic facts that you'll need to know for you final. I don't think I learned about a single escape or attempt to escape and I never knew that the wall only took six weeks to complete, just to name a few.

A very nice part of Berlin was that it was my birthday! Yes, I remembered to mention to people on the tour that it was my birthday. We happened to do a great pub crawl that night where we had to find clues to the next pub. In addition to a pub crawl on my birthday, I went to the top of the Cathedral's Dome and had a beautiful view of the city, went to the New Synagogue, and had Sushi!

The Hike

Yesterday Steven and I went for a hike from Sierre to Sion. The hike was supposed to be about 4 hours, but we got lost. Oopse. Still the hike was very nice, we went through the wine vineyards and some little towns and eventually took a bus about 4 hours into the hike when we saw a sign for Sion that said another 2 hours. Once we got to Sion we had some local wine and dinner.

Pizza in Switzerland

Wherever I have traveled to, everyone asks where can you get a good pizza (well just about everywhere). Well a nice little pizza place I ate at was Molino Select which was right on the river.

But besides the point, the greatest thing about Swiss pizza is probably that they all have (or can have) buffalo mozzarella!

On the down side, the Swiss don't eat pizza with their hands and you have to use a fork and knife to eat it. Lame.

Lack of Sleep...But I Have Arrived In Zurich!

I've been up for almost 26 hours and I've never wanted to go to bed as badly as I do right now!!!



That's not true. I really wanted to sleep when we got to Israel. That was HORRIBLE. It was non stop, constant going, colder than we wanted it to be, and then at 9pm we finally get dinner but we're not in our hotel room. Not just that, it was new years eve so we all wanted stay up until midnight. at 12:01am we went to bed.

I'm doing ok though, Steven greeted me at the airport and we dropped my stuff off at his place. We got something to eat and started to walk around the old city, went to an art exhibit of Alberto Giacometti, went to the waterfront and saw the fountains. Saw the St Peters Church and the Frumunster church. Unfortunately it's a bit cloudy but we have planned to leave Zurich for tomorrow 'cause we believe I should be up early.

Steven says I'm funny when I'm lacking sleep and that I'm starting to hit new levels. Maybe that's possible. Tomorrow will be a more energetic day! Man, jet lag is horrible! Enjoy the silly picture of me really wanting to sleep.

7 Day Away!

As I've not shut up about, I'm traveling to Europe in 7 days for about a month! I'll be going to Zurich, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Krakow, London, and Dublin with part tour and the other part my friend Jess and I'll be staying with friends and family in some cities and well and meeting up with some friends in others.

I've been saving up money to do some traveling for a year now, with summers at camp and the past year working on cruise ships and then since coming back from cap I've been planning the trip, which there have been a few bumps in the road here and there but now all I really have to do is pack! (Which will be the worst thing EVER considering all I'm using is a backpack for a month!) All my hostels and flights are booked, I've done all my shopping, and all my research what I want to do, and yet I just don't feel like I'm ready at all! Sort of strange, I've done my share of traveling, but never have I had this much preparation for it (unless you count the countless medical tests I had to do for working for Norwegian Cruise Line) and I've never had such a build up. I've been planning this for a year now and it's finally happen!