Boat tour

We met Mark and Brandon for a boat tour this morning, a 1 hour tour on the Spree River where they explain the history of the buildings on the river.

It was finally a nice day in Berlin!  We were in the top of an open air boat sitting on plastic chairs with 100 other people and no way off.  Jay's worst nightmare but he did it for me.  lol.

After the boat tour we went to lunch on the river at a little cafe.  Then Mark and Brandon went to rent bikes and ride around the city while Jay and I walked to the mall to do a little souvenir shopping for the girls.  Paige got a charm for her Pandora bracelet and Sophie..she gets something from the airport - poor sweet Sophie - she would rather just have the money probably to horde...maybe we'll just give her Euros she would probably be happy with that - and a stuffed Bear from Berlin.

We came back to the hotel after shopping and Jay immediately passed out - for like 2 hours he napped, I think he couldn't sleep last night after being so mad at Air Canada.

We have dinner tonight at a train tunnel again, it was cool though, they set up stations for dinner (pasta bar, salad shakers, meat and mashed potatoes, pot stickers, beef wraps, crepes, surf and turf) and some tables.  Again, I'll have to get some photos from Mark and Brandon because I didn't take my phone.

I hopped on the bus back to the hotel while Mark, Jay and Brandon went to the Reichstag to watch a bit of the EuroCup soccer on the giant screen.  Germany was playing Poland last night - Jay and Brandon kept saying to Mark "NO seriously, do NOT say Poland are my people or anything like that while we are there" (with the fascist soccer hooligans)..they made it back ok so Mark must have behaved.