Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 11:09:04 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: A nothing day.

To whom it may concern:
Happy Birthday, and have 32 7-layer lemon cakes on me.

To everybody else:
last night after sending that email, i went back to the Reichstag, and once again the line to get in was incredibly long, so i didn't go in, thinking i still have today.

I was awake almost all night, finally going to sleep after 4am, waking up after 1pm, then just laying in bed until after 4pm, when i finally decided to get out, more out of hunger than any desire for sightseeing! well, i still haven't had an official "meal" yet today, and its almost 8pm. I didn't feel like going to the Reichstag either. Oh well, there's always the next trip......

As a whole, I wouldn't rank Berlin very high among other European cities. I wasn't that impressed. Ok, I didn't see the star attraction, but I still wasn't that impressed. The Brandenburg gate is nice, but you cannot climb to the top for what would be nice views. The Checkpoint Charlie museum was probably the best place I liked. Potsdam was nice too, but I only saw the palaces from the outside, not inside. About the best place to eat&drink is Kurfurstendamm... and on a day like today (i.e. weekend) it was overrun by vacationing germans. I've also noticed some people on the U-bahn's giving me a rude stare, probably for no apparant reason other than racism. So all-in-all, I'd rate Berlin below Barcelona, and I didn't care too much for Barcelona either! Of course, the flight situation didn't exactly help much!

Well, tomorrow i fly back the 6,531 miles back home...... provided there aren't any other cancellations/detours through Jamaica or something! That was pretty much what i was doing since waking up -- watching the news about "Ivan The Terrible" in Jamaica and the 9/11 memorials in New York, DC and Pennsylvania.

My time here is running out, so now time for a biiiiiiiiiiig AUTHENTIC german dinner (my first in the last 3 days) and then off to bed to be woken up at 4:30 AM for the flight back home...

Till November,

auf wienerschnitzel (or something like that),
-- less-than-32-years-old me.

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