20th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FALL OF THE WALL

Berlin, Germany, November 9th, 2009.  We were so lucky to time our trip to Berlin at the same time they were celebrating the fall of the wall.  We started with a road trip through Poznan.  We stayed in an awesome brewery hotel...which would have been even better without kids!

Then we headed to Berlin to see the sights... our first stop was Potssdamer platz where they had a snowtube run set up...of course we had to try it!  Nick was not so sure about the whole experience but when we made it to the bottom of the run he finally smiled.

Then we saw the dominoes that were set up to represent the wall for the celebration.

We walked the whole length of the wall.  What an amazing experience to see the changes from just a short twenty years.  The Brandenburg gate was the center of it all.

The kids had a treasure hunt list that they had to find of all the key spots in Berlin, the next one on their list was the Holocaust Memorial

The next day we hit Legoland and the Wall

The weather was bad and Noah was getting sick, so we had to take it easy...

Here was a communist era car and Tom has to get his picture with one or two...

And a little stop by Checkpoint Charlie for a step back in time...

And what was across the street from Checkpoint Charlie??? Thats right, Starbucks...something we have not seen since moving to Warsaw...it was good, but not as good as I had imagined it would be after six months without it!

Despite a fever for Noah, rain and cold we got to see some of the ceremony at the Brandenburg gate...once we saw Noah had fever though, we hopped in the taxi and watched the rest from our hotel room.  The boys are still tough to travel with (because they whine and complain a lot) but we had a pretty awesome trip and on the way home were driving 160 per hour (yah it was KM, but it was still really fast!)