More Loft

My favourite part of the Loft Performance was this one guy who juggled and did the diablo. He was AMAZING. He did 5 diablos at one time. 

That night we went back to the hotel and were allowed to stay up for a bit later than usual. The next day we were off back to Holland. 

And the day after that I was off to Morocco with my family at a very ridiculous flight time...

Loft - The Seven Fingers

The final night we went to a show called LOFT. It was a mixture of humor (in German and English) as well as acrobatics, juggling and diablo-ing. 

Click here to go to their website. 

The funniest part about it was how to enter the auditorium. We (Zoe and I) went up these stairs and there were this German couple with us. The first door that we came upon led onto the stage. Thinking it was a joke we continued up, only to find a dead end. So, we went back to the stage door and went through. We ducked through a fridge and ended up on the stage. The actors pointed to our seats, and we went and joined our friends. About ten minutes into the show, a doorbell rang, the actors stopped their show and opened the fridge, to reveal a family come to watch the show. They offered them pretzels and it was all really pretty funny. 

The fridge that we used to enter the stage

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