On Friday night when we arrived in Hamburg we rode the bahn (train) to the Altona station and checked into our hostel. Meininger Hamburg City Hostel was the name and we had no problems checking in. We did realize that because we booked this accomodation separately, they placed us in separate 10 person rooms. It was a little suprising, but Amanda and I are pretty easy going so we went with it and embraced it as just part of the experience. The room I had was nice, the only issue I had was that my locker didn't work. The front desk was nice and gave me a free locker in the lobby to keep our important stuff in. Saturday morning we woke up and had to get online (free wifi in the lobby!) so that we could communicate with Max (who lives in Hamburg). We met Max last year when he was a foriegn exhange student with my cousins and we all went to the arch in st. louis together. Max agreed to take us on a tour of the city and he also took us out with some of his friends that night. We got to see many beautiful sites in Hamburg, and we climbed the tower at St. Michelas Cathedral to see an awesome view of the entire city. The steps were killer, it was a long way up! We also stopped for some currywurst which turned out to be very good! That night Max took us to a typical german restaurant that you would imagine on tv and we were entertained by his friends and the rest of the restaurant breaking out into german song and pounding on the tables! It was a lot of fun :) Our new German friends took us then to the Reeperbahn where we walked around on the famous red light district of Hamburg. It was a long but very interesting evening!
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