hangin the the hamburgers

well i made it into hamburg!!! john and i couch surfed our first two nights with the best host we have ever had (also because this was our first time couch surfing, for all three parties). she is the sweetest and most hospitable thing ever! the first night we arrived she had 12 of her girlfriends over to watch the season finally of germanys next top model hosted bz heidi klum( i had no idea she was german!) the next morning john and i put together my bike only to find out my front tire had not been packed!! (thanks keith) after buying a tire maireka and her sister bied us around hamburg all day! best tour guides ever. it was such a wonderful day. we then went out for a great dinner with two of their cousins a husband and her sisters boyfriend. after dinner, hamburb had their yearly firework show (something to do with a partnership between them and the japaneese). we think mareike planned the fireworks just for us!! then it was off to acouple of bars... hamburg was great! now we're headed north...