Hi guys! Marshall called me out, so here goes: I spent most of my summer in Berkeley at the energy institute which Marshall pictured in a previous post. I was gone for the last month or so where I spent a week in DC, 2 weeks in Germany and another week in Chicago. Germany was awesome! I felt like it was my first real vacation in a long time. It was very relaxing, especially because Ben planned it all. We spent one week in Berlin, then we traveled to Hamburg, then spent a day on the Rhein River looking at castles, then to Frankfurt and back to Berlin. One of the big highlights was staying in a castle. As you can imagine, I am very tall compared to medieval Europeans, so I had to duck to get through doors etc. This is an awesome picture of the view from the garden outside of our room in the castle.
