A mini reunion :)

So this week I sent Kate Shuipis off on the rest of her European adventures. We had a great time wandering around upper Franconia and Berlin together. In Berlin we checked out this place called the "Tropical Islands Resort." Basically some German decided to build an indoor tropical bathing resort in an old hangar. Crazy, but so far it's worked. Since it just opened this winter, there were definitely still kinks to be worked out, but the water was awesome. During the rest of our time in Berlin, we had lots of tasty food that you can't get in little ol' Bamberg and saw a whole bunch of museums. One of the museums [Pergamon] is dedicated to art, sculpture and architecture of ancient times. It was ridiculously cool--in part due to the huge scale of the works (some were entire altars or market walls) and in part to the general nature of that type of work. Anyways, it was a grand time.