Potsdam

After having a tour at this tudor looking building (where the big three met to discuss what was going to happen to Germany after WW2) we got to have a walk around the shopping area of Potsdam. We got nice ice cream and had a good time walking around. 

Sanssouci

And then we were back on the bus to a city called Potsdam about an hour away from Berlin. The first stop we made was at a nice garden with this palace called Sanssouci which means 'carefree' in French. The memorial below was where a famous person was buried with his 12 dogs. The people place potatoes on the grave to remember how the person took them out of hunger by telling them to plant potatoes. The photo in the top left shows the palace with it's terraced gardens in the summer and the one in the right shows what we saw when the plants weren't in bloom...

Zoe and Emilie

The Dome

 At the top of the Reichstag Building is a big glass dome with stairs running around the edge to the top. It is a great place to see Berlin from, although photos from the top weren't all that great cause of reflections off the glass. 

We managed to get ourselves positioned so that we were reflected in the massive mirror funnel in the middle of the dome. The mirrors are used to light up the room underneath the dome where conferences are held. 

The Reichstag Building

The next day we had to get up real early to get to the Reichstag Building in time for our entry. 

Bowling in Berlin

Our evening activity on Saturday night was Bowling, the first actually fun thing! (The night before we went to another bunker, it was interesting, but boy my feet were hurting by the end) 

We played two games of bowling and I came second in the second game. It was really fun, a good evening to a kind of down day. 

Outside of the Bowling Alley was a tall tower. This is a cool photo of it... 

SHOE STAR! :)

From L-R: Amelia, Zoe, Emilie, Ellie, Fiona, Me

Shopping!

As many of you should know, I LOVE to shop.....

um....

if you thought that then it turns out you don't really know me as well as you think you do. 

:)

Anyway, after the bus ride back (passing the Olympic Stadium) we got dropped off at Potsdamer Platz, in a massive three floor shopping mall. We had to stay in groups of at least three, but the others in my room wanted to shop, and Zoe and I didn't really have much intrest of looking in overpriced clothing stores, so we bent the rules a bit and went off by ourselves. Turns out that we bought more than our friends who wasted their times looking at things they couldn't properly afford! 

I bought Ashlynn a t-shirt and got some chocolate for mommy and daddy. 

Cool Fountain

We went to Starbucks to get hot chocolates - YUM!

Berlin Stop Lights

Berlin has unique pedestrian stop lights. They were started in East Berlin while the wall was up, but the tradition continued and these lights can now be seen all over the city. They are very unique to Berlin and candy, bags, and clothing as well as other merchandise can be bought with these designs on:

STOP

GO