Day 4

Hello everybody and greetings from Germany,
The first thing I have to say is wow! I cant believe how nice Germany is. But anyway let me get started on our day. We had to wake up early again, but dont worry tommorrow we will make up for it out at sea. Then we went out and got a quick breakfast at the buffet. After that we mustered for our trip and then were shuffled out on to a private train. From there we took a two and a half hour train ride through the country to get from Warnemunde to Berlin. The ride was wonderfull all of the trees were in bloom and the flowers were out. Plus it is neat the rows of canola (What they make the cooking oil out of) look like a carpet of yellow. Also I forgot to mention the weather has been wonderful the whole time so far, hopefully it keeps up. When we got to the train station they shuffled us out to busses and we started the tour. First stop is the Berlin Wall. I guess at one point they tried to paint murals on it and called it the west side gallery I believe, but between the poor condition of the concrete and the graffiti it is mostly gone now. Then we boarded the bus and moved on to check point charlie. This was the only point which you could cross the wall between US held West Berlin and USSR held East Berlin. Then we went past the Reichstag and transferd from the busses to a cruise boat. The boat took us up the river and showed variouse new and old buildings. Also there were points were they had not repaired walls and such clear from WWII. It was amazing how many bullet holes were in them, they looked like swiss cheese. Then we transfered back to the busses again. After we were all on the bus we went out to eat for lunch. Let me tell you the German food they fed us was excellent and very plentiful. In fact in Kirah's own words "I think this is the best food we have had all cruise" and I would have to agree. After we were all fat and happy we loaded back on the busses and were off again. We stopped at a market and went shopping. Also at this market were the remains of an old church bombed out by the allies in WWII. But after we got a souviner we were off to the Brandenburg Gate. After some pictures there we loaded up for the last time there and headed back to the trains. After our train ride ended our twelve hour day we snuck up and got a little bit of food and wrote this. So dont judge too harsh the spelling or grammer the last two days we have been a little tired while writing. Tommorrow is as I said earlier a sea day so I am not sure what we are doing yet so stay tuned for another rivitin installment of Kirahs World :) P.S. We love and miss you all!!!