Berlin & Potsdam - Germany
Berlin And Potsdam Germany
July 2005
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Air Service Berlin Friedrichstrasse Train Station Memorial To The Soviet Soldiers Potsdam Berlin Olympic Stadium Holocaust Memorial New Palace - Potsdam Potsdamer Platz Brandenburger Gate Judisches Museum Orangerie - Potsdam The Reichstag CheckPoint Charlie Kaiser Wilhelm Church Parks & Gardens Of Schloss Sansoucci Schloss SanssouciJuly 23, 2005 Washington to Berlin
Everything went well this morning. Got everything done I needed. I drove to Matt’s with dad who drove the Avalanche home. Got to Reagan National 1:30 hours prior to departure. Had a beer at the Foggy Bottom bar across from our gate before departing. Got on the Continental Airlines regional jet that I had to duck the whole way down to our exit row seat and waited. We left the terminal and the plane stopped. Started up again and stopped. The pilot came on to announce that Newark was backed up and we had to wait 50 minutes before departing. Luckily we had a 2:30 hour layover. When we finally left it was pretty cool that the plane only gets to about 17,000 feet. We were tracking our flight all the way from DC. Saw the Washington Cathedral, Mormon Temple, Fedex Field, Philadelphia, etc.
It was weird flying into Newark. You know where the World Trade Center buildings should be and they aren’t there. Newark Airport is really nice though and the prices aren’t inflated because you are at an airport. We walked around and had lunch at the New York Diner by our gate. I had a chicken Caesar salad and Matt had a burger with mushrooms. Also had some spicy chicken fingers as appetizer and a couple of beers. Had a lady come up to us that was sitting next to us at Reagan. She was heading to Berlin also. Her husband was German and had passed away and she was returning to bury his ashes. The way she came up and introduced herself, Matt thought she was in some singles traveling group. We had another beer at the sports bar on the other side of the gate and then boarded the plane.
It was a 757 plane to Berlin, which seemed small. I had the exit row for us and there was a real ass in our row. The row in front of us was an exit row also and they had assigned it to a mother with 2 little kids. They had also double booked it with another guy. The kids can’t be in the exit row so they had to move the mother and kids. That left the guy with three exit row seats to himself. We tried to get the ass in our row to move up but he wouldn’t. He didn’t want to “disturb their systemâ€