Berlin, Monday July 19

July 19, 2010

Having gone to bed late last night and with the jet lag still hovering around, I woke this morning and looked at my watch and to my amazement, it was 10:20. Wow, I couldn't believe it was that late. We had to hustle to get down to breakfast before the buffet closed at 11:00. We spent our looking around the area. We had seen a church steeple that had never been rebuilt after WWII and we wanted to check it out We went in and looked at the interior. Afterward we walked to a nearby mall, the Ke De Wa. On the was we saw some street performers from California and watched their little show. They, or course, passed the hat. The Mall was beautiful and we were especially impressed with the "deli" on the 6th floor. Hardly a "food court" type section of the Mall. It was the entire 6th floor and had every kind of food in sections. There were breads of all kinds, meats, desserts, sushi bars, and rows of other canned and bottled types of foods. It was bright, clean, and delicious looking, but certainly not inexpensive. Jerry saw a lunch menu with items for 26 euros and more. The least expensive was 18 euros. It was all in German so we wouldn't know what we were getting. Needless to say, we went back out on the street and found a place with wraps and things for much less. I had a wrap that was pretty good, Jerry had a piece of bread with only butter and some very thin sliced smoked ham and a slice of hard boiled egg. The best part of his was the bread.
We came back to the room for a rest before having to go to our tour introduction and dinner. We met a very nice couple that sat with us for dinner. Their names are Diane and George Pomeroy from Rhode Island. He was a Presbyterian minister and she is still a minister in a Baptist Church in Rhode Island. It was interesting to talk to them. They knew about Mormons and he had some interesting story to tell about how he had been seated by some of our church leaders.

Still the effects of jet lag hang on. Tomorrow morning starts early with a 6:30 call for breakfast and the tour starting at 8:00, so off to bed to see if I can get this old bod to finish converting to this new time schedule.