Key Learning in the last hours of being 30

Last day of being 30 has brought some important learning that I think I should have already learned but it's always interesting to re-learn sometimes!

#5 - Given a reasonable budget and nothing in mind you will find nothing while shopping!
Anna and I set off the day with shopping in Berlin on our mind... H&M galore seriously like one every block and other fabulous (yet reasonable) store continued to leave us empty handed :( We had a good time and got some great pics of a bombed out church that they have left just as it was (well with some added support).

#4 - Cury-wurst is freakin' amazing
After shopping I headed back to the hotel and the sun shining into the room in the morning gave me a false indication that it would be sunny all day and I was freezing in my tank top. After a quick change it was off to the Jewish museum. The museum was profound (as has all of their monuments and memorials) the architect who designed the museum must have thought a lot about how everything would feel. It was also interesting to see the last 2000 years of Jewish history not just the last 100.

After the Jewish museum it was a short trip to Curry 36 a famous, fight your way in, curry-wurst street-meat place. All the Germans ahead of me (good sign) had complicated orders so when I got to the front all I said was "Curry-wurst" and he did his thing chopping up a sausage, dusting it in curry, drowning it in ketchup, and then another dusting of curry. Absolutely fabulous!!! So tasty! and so cheap! 1.50 euros for the whole thing!

#3 - 5 Euros is ridiculous cost for having food brought up the elevator to your room
I had a low key night nothing too exciting but when Anna came back from the science conference it was exciting times... both of us had not had dinner so we decided to have room service but given the complicated instructions we decided to go down and figure it out. After talking with the waitress I ordered spaghetti and Anna ordered pizza. The waitress gave us two options we take it up to our room ourselves for free or we would pay 5 euros to have it delivered. 5 EUROS! that's like $7.50 on a good day! We decided that's crazy and we are going to bring it up ourselves.

#2 - 5 Euros is a deal to have food brought to your room.
We should have known better... out comes the most precariously balanced meals for us to manage our way to the room. Of course some of Anna's colleagues are hanging out in the lobby so it was don't let it crash, let alone, crash in the lobby. All of a sudden $7.50 seemed reasonable to have someone else risk the food up to our room. Although who knows how if they did it on purpose to make us choose the 5 euro option next time!

#1 - Spaghetti (although fabulous) may not be the best thing to eat 5 minutes before midnight. This one I've most definitively learned before but I was craving pasta and hungry it was so hard to say no to the spaghetti! It was well worth it that spaghetti was my last meal as a 30 year old!

BRING ON 31!