Another week gone by

It is kind of funny this whole blogg thing. I have never before had the time or cared to reflect weekly on what goes down in my life, but I think that thats what berlin is going to do for me. Give me time to reflect on past trials and tribulations and get psyched for the next adventure state side.

(Name the gate)

So the sort of funny dramma from this week is that half the time I was crankie because I thought my bike was stolen. Yes I said crankie and that best describes it. I moved here and the one adventours activity I was planning on still being able to do was to go mountain bikeing, and when I thought my bike was stolen I got full on crankie. So I filled the insurance paper work in the hopes that I could get some money back to buy some kind of bike. 4 days go by of me being crankie and still no bike, I roam the streets of Berlin just looking for the guy that stole my belovid bike, visions of seeing the bike riding theif roll threw my head along with a vision of me doing a flying leap across trafic; cloaths lining the guy and making him pay. Not a great way to experiance a new city..

Monday comes and the only guy that speaks any English calls me over and says he needs to show my somthing. He takes me into this other part of the building that I don't have a key for and shows me MY BIKE!!!! I hug the guy ( mental note: germans don't know how to react when a strange American is hugging them) Turns out the last place I put my bike was not OK with the guy that runs the appartment so he took the liberty of hiding it for me. When I asked his wife about it four days before the language issue got in the way. I am sure there is some sort of lesson in all of this, but I have been to busy riding my bike to think about it. Yesterday I road almost to Potsdam and checked out some really cool Palaces that are now parks along the river. Sorry I don't have any pictures but you will all just have to see for yourself.

Since we told everyone that we were planning on moving to Berlin there have been alot of people that said they were going to come over. We fullfilled our end of the bargian and now it's time for you all to pony up and buy some plane tickets over here. We even got a larger place just to host all of you. So some quick facts on what Hotel Forster has to offer. If you come over you have your own room, all to yourself (nicely decorated by Erin). We have a full kitchen and there is a good chance I will cook most of your meals if you ask nicely. We are located in the "Suburbs of Berlin" our places is surrounded by trees and a 2 minute walk to the train only about 20 minutes from down town. And the best part is you can't do any better on price $19.99 per night! (I am kidding we are not going to charge you) So really it's time to start making plans; or if you are thinking to yourself "Berlin sounds great and all but man I always wanted to go to ??????" Then let us know and there is a good chance we could be talked into ?????.

Our plans so far are as fallows:

Barcelona Spain September 22-24

Belgium, Amsterdam, Luxonburg October 13-21 (Thanks Mike, Eric, and Stacie)

Turkey for Thanksgiving (Seams fitting)

Christmas break (I don't know some were warm hopefully)

January sometime (Skiing in the alps with My sister and John, Heather if you are reading this you and John should come over in January)

Easter Vacation March 17 to April 4:

Croatia, Greese, Italy

And finally to wrap this weeks blog up I will leave you with this little peice of wisdom we found painted to the side of a blown up building from WW2.