Day 1- May 3, 2012. Arrival in Berlin

Day 1- May 3, 2012. Arrival in Berlin:

So, first day in Berlin not so exciting. Lots of it was spend traveling and I was kinda majorly stressed out. I flew into Chicago from Cedar Rapids by myself (That was technically still on May 2) and then from Chicago to London with a good friend Kristin. That flight is when things kinda took a turn for the not so good on the travel related side. I was excited for Berlin so I couldn’t sleep. But once I did finally start to wind down and run out of energy while watching the Social Network, this drunk woman comes back and literally tries to crawl over me to sit next to the guy I was sitting next to. She wakes me up and I tell her I will move so she can get in. Then as I stand up she pushes through and breaks by new headphones L No more music for me. I mess around with my headphones for a bit trying to get them to work again but no luck. So I recline my seat a bit more and count sheep and sing the 99 bottles of beer song. Just as I am about to fall asleep again, a flight attendant comes over and talks to the drunk woman who proceeds to raise her voice and get all worked up. With about 4 hours left in the flight I finally manage to fall asleep and wake up just after breakfast was served and we land in about an hour.

After getting to London me and Kristen got off the plain and headed through passport control and security  and attempted to find the terminal for our flight for Berlin. We ended up having to take a bus for about 10-15 minutes to a terminal separate from the actual airport. After getting there we needed to find our gate. By this point we figured it should be on the screens but no. It wasn’t. We were stressing out a bit. We landed in London at about 11:45 and our flight to Berlin boarded at 12:45. It was already 12:35 and the screen just said please wait. Finally at 12:48 we find the flight was delayed slightly, we were informed which gate to go to and that we would be boarding shortly. There we met up with Sarah who is also in our group, we boarded the plane at took off just a little behind schedule. I slept the whole way to Berlin even though it wasn’t a very long flight. After arriving in Berlin again we had to go through passport control before we could claim our baggage. Here, yet again we run into some trouble. My checked luggage wasn’t on the carrousel. We waited for quite a while and found out that we needed to go the British Airways lost and found. I talked to the ladies there and they said my bag was still in London and will be on the next flight, so it should be here by 8 come back at 9 or we can deliver it. Then we headed to the apartment. That took a while. About an hour because we got lost because our map from Google Maps sucked, it was all turned around. After getting there Kristin and Sarah unpacked  and I wandered around the apartment. Checking it out. Then we went to get ourselves a Döner Kebap and back to the airport. By the time we got back the apartment it was time for shower and bed which is what I’m about to do now. Goodnight J