Adventure 36: Berlin

October 25-30, 2011

The final trip with my mom was to Berlin and we took Spatzl with us.

 The first stop was the Brandenburg Gate and then the Parliment.

 The cross walk lights are quite unique in Berlin. I even bought a shirt with the cross walk lights on it.

 Check Point Charlie, the point of entering or leaving the US segment of Germany. Below a piece of wall, and the guard station at Check Point Charlie with fake Americans. I'm guessing they didn't even speak Englinsh.

 A chocolate ship with chocolate covered buildings from the town of Berlin.

This church was bombed during WWII

 The Berlin Dom. A giganitc church in town. We were able to walk to the top of the dome with an inside and outside walk way. This had a great view. Below is the very creepy krypt.

 The largest section of the wall in Germany. One sight was painted in the early 2000's and the other side is original graffiti. I even tried to climbl the wall. It wasn't happening - my legs are too short.

  A walk around the Reichtag or Parliment Dom at the top of the parliment. The Berlin Bears are everyway, painted in different ways.

 These 'cleaners' were actually cleaning Berlin in some sort of demonstration. It was quite interesting. Then we went to a Berlin fleemarket spontaneously. It is always interesting to look at other peoples junk.

Finally we went to a super cute town south west of Berlin to check out a few castles and have a home brewed German beer.

Adventure 35: Wien with Mom

October 16-18, 2011

Aftering leaving Salsburg, we drove to Wien. Mom was happy to get there as I had tried to kill us 3 times with my bad driving skills. First I did an illegal U-turn, almost hitting a guy on a motorcycle while almost getting hit by oncoming traffic. Next, I drove down the trolley lane and had to back up in an intersection to get in the car lane. Finally, I drove the wrong way down a one way street. Once getting to our hotel, we went to dinner at Burger King. Still poor mom couldn't get a good cup of coffee.

The first stop was Shonebrunn Castle. This was a palace build for the famous queen of Austria - Elizabeth. Here we also went to see a Marionette show - Mozarts "Magic Flute".

The next day we headed headed to the Prata. This is a giant Ferris Wheel. We had heard that we just had to go ride it. However, neither one of use was overly impresses by this.The most interesting thing here was the Pig MAC Machine.

We stopped by a church, where they had dead priest all through the place. This was quite unnerving. Can you imagine sitting with dead people every Sunday for service? Is this meant to scare people into being Christ-like? Creepy!

Next was the royal china collection. This was massive. Everything from gold to silver to glasses of all kinds and made all other the world. The upstairs of this musuem was the old living quarters from Elizabeth. This told of her depression in life, her distaste for being forced to marry royalty, the morning the loss of several children, and her dead by murder. After hearing all of this, it is a wander she never killed himself. On the way back to the hotel we went past the Bellvadere. This, we think, was an art museum. We didn't go in. However, we did see my dad there. Really, my dad would totally where red pants and a green jacket.

 On the third day, we left early and headed to Europes biggest water fall.

Adventure 34: Salzburg with Mom

October 14-15, 2011

Salzburg, Austria

There are no Kangaroos in Austria. This was on all sorts of things - T-shirts, Coffee mugs, magnets, etc.

Salzburg was fabulous. We definitely didn't get to see everything we wanted to. So what did we see:

- The church where Mozart was baptized.

- Salzburg was also where The Sound of Music was also filmed there. Below is the famous gate where singing occurred.

- A big castle on top of the hill with a great view

- A church with creepy tombs

- A fabulous desert and Mozart chocolates

 - Some pickles and a hotdog

 - And a funny floating guy