The Days in Berlin

We got into Berlin the day that was like maybe Monday or something, and when we were driving to our hotel we saw an old church that got bombed in World War II. I thought that it was pretty interesting to see that church and the tallest tower was destroyed but it was still interesting. I thought it was pretty cool to see a church standing up from so long ago. It was built in 1897 by Kaiser Wilhelm the King of Germany. The inside wasn’t very damaged, there were lots of cracks that had to get glued together, but the paintings on the ceiling and walls still looked really beautiful. And also, nearly ¾ of the church got bombed away.

The next day we took a double-decker bus tour. The name of the double-decker bus tour was Top Tour. We saw many of the embassies. We also saw this big statue in the middle of the Tiergarten, which is a big piece of land which is just grass, no buildings mostly. But if you are high up it really is beautiful, but you can also drive through it. We saw the Holocaust memorial, the memorial for all of the people who died in World War II. I thought it was like hills up and down, and it was sort of like a rollercoaster. The tallest cement blocks in the memorial must have been at least 10 feet tall. We also saw this TV tower which gives all the signals to all the TV’s. And another day I went in it and if you are in the dining area, it turns in a circle and takes 20 minutes to go around and see the whole city of Berlin. We also saw the Brandenburg Gate that one held people from going into the city a long time ago. Then we saw the Berlin Wall that kept people from going into the West part of Berlin that were in East part that wanted to go in. And the Berlin Wall was used a long time ago after World War II.

We went the aquarium and I saw a shark. It was swimming around laps, kind of crazy for a shark to know how to swim laps! Laugh, laugh, laugh says Jaden. We went to the Zoo also and saw penguins, monkeys, and lions. My au pair from when I was small, Birgit, came to Berlin to hang out, and we went to the aquarium with her. And I had a great time doing fun stuff with her. My mom and I went the German Museum of Technology. They had a cool airplane hanging up outside the building. I wonder how they got it up there so high. It looked like it could just take off and start flying any time! I wish it was where you could climb in for a tour and then take off and fly around and then come back to the Museum and land on the roof again.

After Berlin we went to Potsdam and we got a tour of a King’s Palace. But we didn’t get to see the Queen’s part, we only got to see the King’s part, and some guest rooms, some dining rooms, and some servant’s rooms. Then we drove to Frankfurt Airport and we stayed overnight in a hotel to catch a plane to Kazakhstan.