After too many days of hanging out in the basement Gym without skiing...
And lots of playing in the snow, but no skiing....
Brigitte, Mark, Martin and myself headed on a little roadtrip to go indoor skiing in Hamburg, Germany. After 9 hours in the car we finally arrived at this box-like building where the hotel, food and skiing were all in the same complex!! we never had to leave!
We joined the europa cup girls on the icy hill the same night we arrived for our first session of ICY SLALOM!
The snow was SUPER ICY and I loved it!! Skiing on ice is my favourite thing! We got 4 sessions of 2 hours over 2 days and I feel like we accomplished a lot! Even though skiing indoors isn't the most inspiring place to be, the training was awesome, and apparently Solden was still horrible. I'm really happy we had the chance to train on sheer ice since most of the World Cups are similar conditions, minus the roof.
About an hour into the drive back to Solden, Mark suggested that Brigitte and I just stay in Berlin overnight. It sounded crazy since we did not know ANYTHING about Berlin, but we jumped at the chance to see a new city and embarked on a new adventure!!! I called my dad as we approached town (since he has spent a lot of time in Berlin) and he gave us some ideas and directions and OFF WE WENT! First stop: Checkpoint Charlie.
Checkpoint Charlie was the name given to one of the most well know Berlin Wall crossing points between West Germany and East Germany during the cold war. (thank you wikipedia....)
posers at the checkpoint... I guess you can pay them a euro and have your picture taken!
From checkpoint Charlie we headed towards Potsdamer Platz where we were staying.
This was one of the amazing sights along the way!! Brigitte and all her bags.... we were bag ladies for the day...
Me and the big L....
This was a little church along the way.
Once we checked into our hotel we IMMEDIATELY went back into Potsdammer Platz to shop for some nicer clothes so that we would be able to get into a decent restaurant for dinner. We arrived in Berlin with only sweats and tshirts with us since NOTHING was planned before-hand. So here are our amazing Berlin Outfits!! Thank you H & M...
What to do with brand new crazy outfits: naturally.
The streets of Berlin.... crazy.
Part of the old Berlin Wall on our way to check out the Brandenburg Gate.
We walked (and posed) through the Tiergarten on our way to Brandenburg Gate.... this was our best pose of many... ha. we love posing. Back in our non german sweats and sweatshirts outfits!!
More pretty tiergarten sites... (other than us of course....)
ZEE BRANDENBURG GATE.
Our favourite streets to cruise....
And sadly, the crazy cool Berlin Train station. Prepping for our 9 hour journey back to Austria and to the alps.
A minute of entertainment during the 9 hours of train riding home...
All in all, that was a sweet 4 day excursion. Awesome training and crazy touristing in Berlin are definitely highlights of my trip so far!!! Berlin was so much fun even though we only had about 20 hours to get everything in! It's really cool when the coaches let us go off on our own to explore parts of Europe during the busy season. We usually end up driving past cool cities, but we lucked out this time and I will never forget my crazy quick trip to Berlin with Bri!
Today we skied in the SUN!!! it was nice to finally feel the sun on our faces since it has been so stormy lately.
Tomorrow we are heading to Pitztal Glacier to ski on some steeper terrain!! Should be fuN! And hopefully SUNNY!!
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