I went to Berlin this past weekend with my parents and sister-in-law. They came to the 'Furt for an autumn break and although I've seen enough of ZARA kids to last me awhile, I absolutely had a blast with them. I think this was in large part due to my SIL, Janell. She not only taught me how to properly clean my bathroom (who knew that you had to clean toilet basin bowl?! I am not good at that!) but she also balanced the DNA overload of my parents. My father is prone to dramatics and histrionics (At the Checkpoint Charlie Museum: "You mean to tell me that when I was a 16 year-old banging on drums in White Bear, some 16 year-old East German was trying to build a helicopter to cross the Wall... (awed shaking of the head)." My mother, God bless her, has gotten a little too skillful at text messaging and internet browsing via cell phone. She whipped out her phone in front of every monument to "check on my guy." She meant Barack Obama.
But that's why I love my parents, I think.
Besides seeing all of the major Berlin sites, taking a bus/boat tour, and doing damage control at the Pergamon Museum (my dad tried to touch the Ishtar Gate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishtar_Gate) we ate at some amazing restaurants. When a guidebook tells me that there's an Italian restaurant serving "the best Italian food outside of Italy" and frequented by the likes of a Mr. Tom Hanks, I'm there. So we enjoyed a meal at Bocca Di Bacco: http://www.boccadibacco.de/
We also ate at Zum Letzen Instanz, Berlin's oldest restaurant (1621) where a group of drunk Swedish business men (from hand gestures we gathered concrete sales) kept massaging both of my parents' necks.
And we hung out a lot in the lobby of the Westin Grand, where scenes from the second Bourne movie where filmed. They have ornery waitresses.
Surprisingly my parents and Janell claim to like the 'Furt more than Berlin. I don't know if they are saying that just to be nice, but for those of us living in the Cleveland of German, it felt pretty darn good.
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Well, Steph, I had written a nice commetn but f---k it! Each time I leave a comment the goddamn system tells me I have th wrong password and I have to re-set it up and then it erases my previously well-worded comment.
Glad oyu had fun with your family in Berlin!
Man, my typing also sucks! Sorry!
Who is Jetta? are they drunk when posting? I am concerned about your followers. Yes, we need to talk. I am a workaholic now but am free any morning between 5 am and 6:30. Call. Weekends work as well.
What a great time we all had. I'm still debating the orange hair. What do you think?
I think anyone who has ever listened to your dad on the radio knows that he is prone to "dramatics and histrionics." :)
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