Last day in Berlin

Yesterday was another fantastic day. We got so lucky with beautiful, cool, sunny weather and colorful leaves. Lizzy and I woke up and headed to the zoo after breakfast, and the animals were amazing. the zoo we went to ( because there are two in Berlin.--one in the east and one in the west) has the greatest number of species than any zoo in the world. The monkeys were unquestionably our favorite. We found one monkey pen where there were lots of them running everywhere and tackling eachother and playing, and then one entered the room holding a very very small baby. 2 monkeys were clearly in charge of the baby, and when they brought him down to the bottom floor, he began to run all over, literally rebounding off the walls and attempting to jump onto other monkeys who would playfully pick him up off of them and then roll him around a little before he would run of to one of his parents and put his hands on their faces. they were so human, it was really bizarre. they even have toenails! this little monkey tried to reach up to the platform off the ground that led to the upper level of the room, but he couldnt reach it so he kept jumping up and grabbing it adn trying so hard to pull himself up, and when he couldnt he would drop back down and stare up at it and put his little hand on his chin like he was totally flabbergasted and perplexed. it was almost the cutest thing i have ever seen. We stood in front of the exhibit for at least 15 minutes totally mesmerized.
   we also saw a lot of other cool animals including our dear mascot the polar bears, which we were very happy about. we even spotted a dinosaur, which turned out to be some very strange kind of one horned rhino. scary. 
    After the zoo, we headed to an insane flea market where we met up with lizzy's friends and got currywurst, which is a sausage  topped with a tomato curry sauce and mustard (very german and very tasty) followed by a pancake with cinnamon and sugar. delicious. we eventually left and walked across part of town to the area of berlin that has both parts of the berlin wall still intact, with the no man's land between them, and we climbed a tower to see what it used to be like and read about the history of it. That was also really cool, and we had been hoping to see it. we later headed towards the tourist center of town stopping at a cool cafe along the way. From there we went home for the night. We made some red and white pasta for dinner, and lizzy commented on how colorful they were. turned out the red ones were flavored with chili, very spicy. I really enjoyed it, but lizzy couldn't eat it, so we had to make her another kind. it was a pretty funny surprise though. Monika came home and it was nice to see her again. i cant believe how welcoming and generous she was, and she invited us back later in the semester!