I can't believe it! We are already at day 40! half way through
our vacation! Thinking about Spain seems like forever ago! I know this
trip has definitely changed me! This will be special in my life -
forever! Well, today, we woke up and ate the breakfast we got from
yesterday! Then we got ready, walked around Berlin, Germany!
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| It's easy for us to find things that entertain us. |
We walked around and looked into museums and at memorials as we decided what to do today.
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| Reading Rick Steve's book; wouldn't leave home without it. |
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| Our little crazies! |
We stopped for brats before we started the bus tour. We also stopped at a pastry shop and had to choose carefully to get one without liquor.
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| Hanging with Pinocchio. Germany is his birthplace. |
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| Some people chose this transportation for their tour. I didn't think we'd get very far. |
We got a hop on, hop off, bus tour. At one stop, the bus was supposed to be stopped for ten minutes, so Dad and I got off to get sunglasses, but the bus left early, and we had to chase it down, because the rest of our family was on it! The bus driver stopped and let us in.
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| The boys in the back. |
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| Talie, stealing kisses. |
We saw a flee market and Kennedi got a Barbie movie.
In the afternoon, all of the streets are blocked by a gay parade. We can't finish the tour or get back to our car. Finally, the bus finds a way to get us closer to our car . . .
. . . and we drive to find the Berlin wall - which went up practically over night, cutting through neighborhoods, and even through some homes.
Then, anyone that tried to pass it was shot immediately! I really enjoyed the wall. There was an East side (East Berlin) Soviet Union, and a West side.
Everyone wanted to go to the West side to be free.
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| The dead zone, in the middle of the two West and East wall. |
The longest part of the wall that is still standing is about one mile long and is covered in paintings (completely different from what I imagined). Different artists around the world were invited to paint a mural on the wall. The entire city of Berlin is covered in Graffiti, but they are very careful to preserve the artwork on the wall.
My Dad ripped a brick out of a dead spot on the wall! That's a cool souvenir!
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| A little game of "Where's Kennedi", can you spot her? |
We even found the Suchers.
It was good for the kids to continue our World War II tour which started in Amsterdam at Anne's house.
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