Tim's long weekend and Benjamin's autumn vacation lined up perfectly this semester, so we left Wednesday morning for Berlin (about a 6 hour train ride from Heidelberg). We stayed until Saturday afternoon, and really enjoyed it!
On Wednesday we checked into our hotel and then went to see the Brandenburg Gate.
Right next to the gate is where the US Embassy is located.
We had reservations to go to the dome of the Reichstag, which is where the German parliament meets.
View from the dome over Berlin.
In the center of the dome is this column of mirrors whose angle can be changed to direct sunlight into the parliament room below.
Where the parliament sits.
On Thursday morning we did something for the kids, which was to visit the Legoland Discovery Center, complete with a mini-Berlin.
The mini-Berliners would push down the wall every few minutes.
There was also a Star Wars section.
That afternoon, we visited The Story of Berlin Museum, which was fantastic.
It has a Cold War-era bunker beneath it.
