Thursday, October 30, 2008

Mom's first trip to the Motherland (Germany, duh!)

Saturday, Oktober 25

Well, we woke up at the crack of dawn (and had to use an alarm) to get to the train station in time to catch our train. Or so we thought. Apparently its really helpful to look at your ticket before arriving at the train station an hour early. Who would've thought!? But, while we were waiting I got to talk to a mom and her two children who spoke only Czech. I know, now you want to know how I talked to them...SIGN LANGUAGE!! That's right! I used the sign language I've learned working with CSS! How fun?!

Anyway, we finally made it on the train for a foggy yet beautiful ride back to Berlin! Once we made it the apartment and up the 4 flights of stairs with 4 heavy bags and 3 backpacks we set out to see the Kaiser-Wilhelm Gedaenknis Kirche, KaDeWe, Potsdamer Platz (which had a cool exhibition about the wall), the Brandenburg Gate (daddy just couldn't wait any longer) and the Memorial for the burned books.

The American Food Section of KaDeWe...aka homesick heaven!
A piece of the Wall behind me in Potsdamer Platz
One major thing I learned today: Mom and Dad lack the ability to take a non-blurry picture with a point and shoot camera. Here are some examples:

2 comments:

Zach Smith said...

That has a lot to do with their inability to use a flash, apparently.

Mer said...

no. we werent using a flash because you couldnt see what was behind me. but these were taken without messing with the shutter speed either!