Berlin Day 3

First thing in the morning we

headed back to Checkpoint Charlie 

to go to the museum.

Lucky for us the 'soldiers'

were not at the checkpoint yet, so we could get 

some picutres without them or paying for them

to take our picture.

Then we went to the museum.

We could have easily spent the whole day here

reading every thing, but it was also very

sad to read about life back then.

The lenghts people went to 

to escape East Berlin.

 We made our way to second floor and realized it 

was time to go. It had a lot of history on

more recent and current conflits or events.

We quickly found ourselves having to

stop the kids from reading things.

We want to expose the kids to a lot

of things, but we felt it was little too

heavy for their current age. Honestly

some of it was too much for me.

We decided to cheer up the mood and 

go on a bear hunt on our way to lunch.

Buddy Bear is all over Berlin, so

we decided to see how many we could find.

 In the middle of the city we found a bombed

out church. It was beautiful!

After lunch and a little shopping

(Berlin has some great shopping)

we went to the Berlin Zoo.

It was located in the middle of city,

but once you entered the zoo you never would have

realized that. 

 Hard to believe it was Sweet Boys first 

visit to a zoo, but in my defense he has been

to 3 different countries.

Off we went to explore with our tour guide!

He was a man with a plan.

 We got very close to a lot of the animals.

Sweet Boy went crazy at the monkeys!

I wish I had video of him just talking to them.

I was wearing him on my back, so it was a little

hard to take pictures of him.

 After spending a few hours at the zoo it was time

 to call it day!

We found one more bear on the way back to

the hotel.

It was our last night in Berlin so

when  we got  back to our room the big kids

went swiming with Mr. PC and Sweet Boy

crawled all around the room.

We ordered room service for dinner 

and called it a night.