... and I think it's my clothes. I turned a few things inside out and gave them a cologne dusting today. Wow, I feel a little disheveled. No luggage yet, which also means no hair product and day 4 without shaving... I am indistinguishable from the natives, except I'm carrying around a big camera and the only German I can speak is gesundheit. Other than that, I'm a chameleon. I finally broke down and bought a pair of pants, a shirt, and a few - ahem - unmentionables because I couldn't take it anymore. Oh yeah, and I made a pit stop at a local drug store to pick up some love for the hair. I had a meeting to go to tonight, and I couldn't attend looking and feeling like I just crawled out of the dumpster. And one last thing to top it off. It rained a little here earlier today and I learned that both of the rubber soles on my shoes apparently have cracks in them. I love 2 day old, wet socks. Good times. Things could be much worse, though. I did get a chance to wander around the neighborhood by the hotel for a little bit with my camera. I'm really looking forward to going to the east side of berlin on Sunday and Monday - that's were most of the older, more historic buildings and sites are. In the meantime, here's a few of the images I clicked today. I didn't go to sleep until about 4:45 this morning, and the sun was already coming up. When I woke up two hours later, here's the view I had in front of me.

Looking down at the street from my hotel room.

Just a door down the hallway from my room.

Looking p at the hotel from the street.

Cool reflection in a store window.

The next couple images are from the Kayser Wilhem Gedachniskirche (memory church) built in 1895 and bombed during World War II, now a war disaster symbol, the church was never rebuilt, and part of the main steeple was left standing. The new part was built in 1965.

This was inside the newer part. The blue is from thousands of tiny stained glass blocks in the wall.

Here's the church at night... obviously.

Ahh... birthplace of the Mini.

Check out this crazy heavy duty ping pong table with the metal net just sitting outside in the corner of a small courtyard I stumbled upon.