You Don't Say...

Hey everone! Just arrived home from Hamburg, Germany. I must say, it is lovely to be back in London, even if it was raining when we got here. I hadn't realized just how much I'd missed the accents (or being able to understand the language)! Time for another Top Ten:

Top Ten Things Heard/Overheard, Fall Break 2009
1) "I don't want to see you tomorrow" -the lady at the Ryanair counter to Mallory and me
2) "I look like I'm about to smack someone" -5 yr old British girl in airport, talking about her passport photo
3) "That's not my teddy!" -recurring line from a children's book that some poor mother read enthusiastically and repeatedly for the duration of our flight from London to Trieste, Italy, in order to keep her small toddler quiet
4) "Good job!" -Italian lady making fun of us as we dragged our luggage along the Venice marathon route
5) "Vatican, schmatican...who needs the Vatican when I've got tiramisu!?" -Mallory
6) "509 BC: Kings are bad" -Justin, our walking tour guide in Rome, summarizing the historical point he'd just explained in detail
7) "You don't speak English. I don't like you. You can close the door now." -Lady working on the overnight train from Rome to Vienna, after a particularly frustrating conversation with another passenger in our compartment
8) [Quacking sound effects] -waiters at a restaurant in Rome making fun of Mallory's rubber duck when she put it on the table to take a picture
9) "Nothing says love like a big Communist hug" -Tom, the bike tour guide in Berlin regarding the pedestrian crosswalk images in former East Berlin
10) "They threw on their dressing gowns, mullets flapping in the wind, and ran down to the visa office" -Tom, the bike tour guide in Berlin, regarding the events that directly led to the Berlin Wall coming down

More explanations, specific stories, and lots of pictures to follow after church and catching up on some sleep. Until then, cheers!