Thursday, May 18, 2006
All-American Week!
Yes, I did tell the whole world I was going to Berlin, and I did, but well. :)  It all started when on the drive up, we stopped to fill up the tank, and while at the rest stop, I spied with my lil eye, something yummmilicious!! That no one there had ever heard of before!!!!!  So, since the rest of them weren't in the least bothered, while I was jumping like a monkey, I bought the tub, and offered to share. But no one else wanted it!! So erm. Well, it was all mine. Heh. And the thing I love about this weather is, icecream NEVER melts!! So I got it before lunch, had lunch (baked potatoes and veggies - it IS all-american after all) and then went back to working on my ice-cream. Hehehe. :) Someone should really look into spreading the Ben & Jerry's word around here. I mean, i can only do so much if I can't even GET the ice-cream here in Munich!! :( And then! When we got to Berlin!!! Guess what I found EVERYWHERE!!! Dunkin' Donuts!!! And we all know what the official colors of dunkin donuts is. ;) Well, not the donuts themselves, but the company, and the outlets. Hee. It was the best la!!! And how apt is this sign, in terms of American-ness.  But I must say, that place was so sad. I went into the museum, and started reading all the things, and boy was I glad it was 9pm cos it got really hard to try not to cry. :S All those people were so young, and all they wanted was their freedom!! And let's not talk about the Wall memorial either. I got in all the Berliner sights at night, in a grand total of liek what, 2 hours? Coz the main focus of this trip was, of course, the ILA. And I will be back in Berlin when I come to Leipzig for the World Cup Match! For which I got tickets! Tee Hee! As for food, we went to this classy lil cafe/bistro/bar thingie that was *such* a throwback in time. I loved it!!And the food was yummilicious!!! Check the place out man!! :P The service was excellent, and the place was packed despite it being anything but cheap. Yumm!!  The photo completely doesn't do the place justice. The lighting was a LOT mellow-er. All orangey and stuff. Reminds me of home. :( Mommy hates white lights. Haha. So at night the house is all orange too. =) But anyway, the whole point of the Berlin trip. ILA. It was all about planes planes planes. Day One was spent touring around, visiting EADs, asking them about PhD positions and stuff. Haha. :P And looking at the aerial displays! The MIG-29, the Messerschmidts, the Tigers and Tiger (Patrolle Suisse Planes and Goldeneye heli), the eurofighter typhoon (without the weapons so it could do all the cool stuff) and a lot of other cool and not too cool stuff. Like the A380, and the DC6 (which i will always have a thing against coz it never lets me in. bleh.) and the other big commercial planes la. I mean, who wants to see a bus when u can see a lamborghini man. :p And and and. Ingo and I got a tour of ALL the US aircraft!!! We were happily there, and started to talking to one of the F15E dudes, and I just casually asked if we could get upclose for photos and plˆtzlich (i love that word! means suddenly in german) we were getting a tour of ALL the planes!!! I mean, all of 'em!! We were in the cockpits of the C17A, C130, and a couple more. heh. And so I posed with all the planes, and then! In the C17!! Since the ramp wasn't lowered, there was a lil service ladder-tunnel thingie leading up to the tip of the tail. I sooo wanted to climb that!!  "Can I can I can I?" "Well, suuure. But you've got the wrong shoes..And I've gotta warn you though, it gets reaaaallly dirty up there coz we haven't been up there in awhile" "I'll take em off!! And I don't mind getting dirty" "Ok then sure, soon as the colonel gets down. He's probably stuck" Hehe. Think of one of the most famous colonels in the world associated with fast food outlets, and u get the approximate size of most dudes. Good thing daddy stopped climbing up and finished his reservist just before he hit the rotund ranks. Can't imagine him as a fat round dude. *shudder* Then again, the generals/colonels I've seen back home aren't that tubby. So maybe it's just a thing that's in this part of the world. Hmm. Again, just before I went up, "don't say i didn't warn you! your white skirt's gonna get reaaal dirty up there!" please! I can buy a new skirt anytime dude! :P But I can't buy a C17 to crawl up. Heh. Besides, how many times could I actually get to even climb up a thing like that!!  And on the way up it was pitch black!! Hee. That first photo was without the flash. Then finally with the flash, look at the difference!!! And yes, I am sunburnt. Just from that one day out looking at all the planes.  He let me go up after him since I was wearing a skirt (and let me go first on the way down. whahaha. :P so sweet rite?) Of course on hindsight I realised I could have gone down and bought a pair of shorts or berms or pants or SMTH from one of the shops, but I was waaaayyy to excited to think straight back then. Heh. The view from the top was magnificent! I just lay there for awhile looking at everything, clicking away. And just enjoying the breeze! After the grand tour, we walked around a lil more, waited for the B1, but then decided to come back later since the Patrolle Suisse people wanted to go in and see it first. And before that it was some Colonel again. :S When I grow up, I wanna be a Colonel too! Everyone has to wait for you!! But anyway, we then went to see a couple of the UAVs. Look familiar? I was so stunned to see them in use!! Haha. **UAVs** But then after that we left since there was no time. :( And we left for Munich. =((((( Without going for the party the US peeps invited us to while touring arnd the thingie. =( And I so wanted to stay to see the B1. But oh well. All good things must come to an end. Hee.
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