Berlin is gay...

We got up had some breakfast at the local bakery and then headed into town. The architecture on the buildings is really amazing. One of the coolest places, which seems to be a theme in all of the German cities, was the Berlin Dom. After that we went to the museum district and wandered around town hitting all of the interesting areas. We saw the Fernsehturm, Rotes Rathaus, Brandenburg Tor, Reichstag, Tiergarten, Sony center, Checkpoint Charlie, the Bugatti dealership, a €24.000 cell phone, the memorial to the murdered jews, Siegessäule, a chunk of the Berlin Wall, and more... (I will post some pictures of these sights separately since they are not gay). On our way into the heart of Berlin we noticed some trucks preparing for a parade. We assumed it was preparing for the following day in case Germany won the EM Cup. Turns out we were wrong. Anyone ever get that email about not accepting candy from strangers? This is why you don't...
Ever get the one about Miss Thailand?
We came to realize that Saturday was the Berlin gay pride parade. It is also the largest gay pride parade in the world apparently, and it was raining... What are the odds that we would be there on that weekend... haha... After lunch we went into the heart of communist territory (East Berlin) to check out another Dom and the largest single store in Europe. Finally after about 10 hours of walking around we took a taxi back for a short nap. After 15 minutes of refreshing sleep and 45 minutes of snoring we cleaned up and then went to the club where once again it was light by the time we left. Although this isn't that amazing since it is only dark out from 11pm until 3am. This horrible fact has been wearing on Lorik and I since we like to sleep when it is dark out, but that never happens here...

One last joke... here is our metaphor for the US dollar compared to the Euro. Randomly throughout the city of Berlin there are a bunch of these bears painted by different people etc. They are actually kind of interesting.