Castles, Cake, Cars... Oh My!

    (Sunday, April 3rd 2011)    
    Hey Twi-hards of the Fandom,

The real Black Forest

    So this week in the Amazing Race we traveled to Berlin, Germany. The very first thing we had to do was travel to Germany via airplane. Once we landed we had to find the world's tallest church, the Ulm Munster Cathedral. This thing was HUGE it's 161 meters tall with a total of 768 stairs! From there we had to build a replica of the famous church using centi-cubes (plastic cubes that are one centimeter is length and width). Each cube represented 5 meters and we had to reach 161 meters, 161 divided by 5 is 32 so we had to use 32 cubes. Now we start to go into the meaning of the post title. We had to find the Fairy Tale Castle, which was built by King Ludwig II. This castle was the inspiration for Sleeping Beauty's castle in the famous Disney movie, Sleeping Beauty. It is also Walt Disney's inspiration for Disney World's famous castle. After that we started to loose our... well a lot of things, our minds, our good position in the race, and we lost our cool.


   We went to the famous highway in Germany were you can drive at any speed you wish. We had to finish a car race in under 20 seconds, but we had some major trouble finding the highway. I kept my hopes high and prayed for the best. Team Rapper's came to the rescue and gave us directions (thanks guys!). We did end up falling way behind but we survived. Any way from there we traveled to this amazing German bakery to get the list of ingredients needed to make Black Forest cake. After that Kylee had to scarf a piece of it down, us vampires don't eat. From there we had to figure out what/who Checkpoint Charlie was. It was a spot on the Berlin Wall that was the most frequent spot for runaways to try to cross the wall. It was also known as Death Point or something like that because of the large numbers of people who were shot there.

Kylee and I were walking around in the beautiful city of Hamburg today and we found a famous historic site that is worth seeing. It's called "Hamburg's Port", it's located on the river Elbe, which leads into the North Sea. Hamburgs Port is also known as "The Gateway to Germany"because it is the largest port in Germany. It is also the second largest port in Europe. Any way we're a little behind but hopefully we'll catch up soon! Wish us luck, and thanks for the support and the reading of our very long posts!
Love,
Miss Elisabeth Cullen



Hamburg's Port