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nice signs - IMG_4230.JPG
Oh yes, a giant giraffe made of legos. Not part of the parade. - IMG_4205.JPG
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What are those polar bears doing? - IMG_4194.JPG
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This was one of the more homemade efforts. - IMG_4199.JPG
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Michael tries out the trunk of the...oh, some fancy car - IMG_4281.JPG
Seneca - IMG_4193.JPG
Characteristic float: 18-wheeler with powerful speakers and two levels of dancing gays. - IMG_4203.JPG
really, excellent outfits - IMG_4208.JPG
another more creative float - IMG_4200.JPG
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Revisiting the Bebelplatz memorial of Nazi book-burnings. - IMG_4229.JPG
at least one picture with us - IMG_4231.JPG
Another piece of the background: Audi's ad strategy. Draping a building under construction with a picture of that building and a billboard in front of it. - IMG_4187.JPG
Fortunately, the rain stopped before the parade arrived. - IMG_4183.JPG
We scope out a good spot for parade-viewing. - IMG_4266.JPG
site of Hitler's bunker and then the swankiest apartments in East Germany - IMG_4265.JPG
The former Nazi air force headquarters, which surprisingly survived the war and now houses the German IRS. - IMG_4184.JPG
our fellow parade-anticipators - IMG_4238.JPG
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Mother and (dead) son, inside the memorial to victims of war and tyranny. - IMG_4185.JPG
Others were not lucky enough to have staked out a spot under a large umbrella. - IMG_4206.JPG
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A very neat memorial: just an empty gray room with an open skylight, inside an old neoclassical building that looks like it should be a bank. - IMG_4274.JPG
We take a break for a little beer. - IMG_4236.JPG
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Bryan and Leslie in a park, with palace of some sort in the background