i'm cold...

Well I officially froze my butt off this last weekend! We went to Berlin, and it was cold! We still had an awesome time though.



There is so much history in Berlin, so it was really cool to see and experience some of the sights and stuff. The city isn't nearly as picturesque as most of the cities I have been too, but the stuff that has happened there made it really cool. For example, we stood right over the exact same spot that Hitler killed himself. Although you would think that would be some sort of preserved place, it is actually a small grassy area where locals bring their dogs to do their duties. We all found that kinda funny...

We also saw part of the Berlin wall which was pretty cool, but again, if it wasn't for the history behind it, it would just look like an ugly concrete wall.

They have free city tours in most bigger cities here, so we did it there and it was awesome! The only bad part about it was that it was freezing. At one point in the tour we couldn't even barely see because the snow was blowing so hard in our faces.

This is the square where the famous book burnings were held. The building at the far end is Humboldt University, and it's library is on the left side of the picture. For the book burnings they had people in the library just throwing the books out all the windows, then they gathered them into big piles and lit them up. Sounds like a pretty good time right..?! That school has had a few pretty famous people come through. Albert Einstein taught there for awhile before he fled to the states and Karl Marx studied there.. There were more, but those are the only two i can remember...

On sunday we went outside of Berlin to an area called Potsdam. I dont really understand it exactly, but basically it is just this little town outside Berlin where a bunch of really rich people built a bunch of huge palaces. It was pretty crazy because there were just all these massive palaces right next to each other. It would have been quite the neighborhood, talk about keeping up with the Jones'!