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We( The Brew Class) traveled by school bus to PDX, where we dealt with security checkpoints and fickle check-in machines. Then, we flew by Delta Airlines to Amsterdam, which totaled 10 hours in the air. During these ten hours, I ate two airplane meals, slept two hours, watched one movie, and played three card games. My first meal of the air journey consisted of little tortellini, a salad, a block of Tillamook cheese, and a cookie bar. From there, the airplane food became more daring. For breakfast, the airline served us warm, stuffed bread rolls. “What was the stuffing?”, one might inquire. I do not know, possibly eggs. We landed safely in Amsterdam, and then it was off to Berlin. With our entire luggage we took a bus that then chaffered us to our hotel. After settling in, we had our first dinner in Berlin at a Thai restaurant. Later that night, I enjoyed my first beer, a Berliner Kindl, in Germany. The beer’s mascot is a child bashfully sitting in a beer mug.