Berlin + 1

Friday in Berlin. This morning, unfortunately, we had to check out of the Circus Hostel and move to another Hotel, the Circus was all booked up, so we packed up and headed out with our luggage. We didn't go far though, there was a laundry mat right down the street and we decided to treat ourselves to a real cleaning. Up until now we had been washing a few items every night in our hotel room sinks and hanging them up on a makeshift clotheslines. The process works pretty well and it has enabled us to pack super light, that being said, we were still really excited about giving our clothes a deeper cleaning. The German laundry mat turned out to be quite an experience. A short man greeted us as we entered with a quick, "Hallo," and immediately began rattling off advice in very choppy English. He kept pointing at the machines and saying, "Small Machines," then pointing at himself and saying, "Information." We may not have had the easiest time communicating with him, but he was very kind and REALLY wanted to help. You would think, how hard could it be, but the machines were ran by a much larger machine served as a payment counter, detergent dispenser, yes, just like a soda fountain, and a timer. The "Information" man also would only let Evan near the machines and kept telling me I should sit because Evan was a gentleman, it was quite entertaining. It was a pretty unique experience that left us with not only some laughs but a fresh wardrobe.
After we really packed our clean clothes we headed south towards our new Hotel. Luckily, we arrived at a pretty nice place, we booked without knowing too much about it, though we aren't too picky. All we need is clean room and even get excited if there is a bathroom in the room, which there was. Since we had spent much of our daily budget on laundry, we decide to go to a grocery store for supper. Again, we got to have an whole new experience, well kinda of. The store that we went to resembled Aldi's, which we were familiar with, but nothing in English was to be found. Which was actually pretty fun. We spent some time deciphering if we were picking out tuna salad, chicken salad or even Herring salad. After the guessing game we heading back to our hotel to enjoy our cheap little feast and spent some time attending to some work we have from back home.
(One picture we are posting for today shows you just how little we are traveling around with for these 5 weeks. The bags house all of our clothes, a laptop, our camera, sketchbooks, toiletries and evan extra pair of shoes for each of us. People keep commenting on how little we are managing with and I think it makes us kinda proud.)