Final Day in Berlin

Yesterday we took it pretty easy all day and in the evening we went to a variety show called Show Me! It is advertised all over Berlin so it was pretty exciting to get to go see it. Above is a picture of me with an advertisement.

 There was many different cool aspects to the show. Lots of music and dancing and some exciting additions as well like water dancing and a pole dancer who was amazing. The entire show was really worth it! I'm so happy Nicole had the idea to go. There was even a waterfall in the middle of the stage just falling into the center stage as well as the biggest 'can can' line i have ever seen!

As today was my last day in Berlin we wanted to make today count, but get back in time to get to bed early and get situated for my flight to Cyprus tomorrow. So for the day we went to experience the East Side Gallery which is the Berlin Wall still in place to remember the times. 

 There were many cool paintings on the wall the entire way down. This one was important to Nicole, because she grew up in East Germany and remembers rarely having access to bananas, so this photo represents that.

This painting was done to represent the famous photograph called "Brother Kiss". The actual photograph was taken in 1979 at the festivities of the 30th anniversary of the Deutsche Meomkratisch Republik (aka East Germany). Pictured is Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and East German President Erich Honnecker. The kiss was customary, a normal ritual for socialist buddies. It later became an iconic photograph.

This picture here is also painted on the wall. It is notable because it represents another true photograph of history. The photograph is of an East German soldier, Conrad Schumann who was standing guarding on the third day of construction of the wall. There was no wall quite yet where we was guarding, only barbwire on the ground. A police care drove by and told him to quickly jump across to West Berlin, and he did. It is also an iconic image that represents the Cold War era as even the soldiers did not want to reside in East Berlin.

 The wall was very long, but Nicole and I couldn't take the cold any longer to complete the walk of the wall.

On our walk back, I thought it was important to snap this lovely shot, not only to show the city of Berlin, but to prove to everyone how cold it really is here. As you can see in the photo the water has ice chunks floating down it. It is freezing here!

Our walk concluded with lunch at a lovely pizza place called Pirate Pizza. Located in a gap of the Berlin Wall. It was really tasty and exactly what we needed. We stayed and chatted until we could feel our feet once more then hopped on the train and made our way home for the day. We decided it was far to cold to stay out and explore the city.