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We stroll through the weekend beer festival along Karl Marx Alley. The trees mask the ugly East German buildings. - IMG_4586.JPG
Bryan enjoys our favorite beer of the event, Augustiner hefeweissen from Bavaria. - IMG_4588.JPG
another shot of the crowds and stands - IMG_4589.JPG
Leslie orders two varieties of hefeweissen, hell and dunkel (light and dark). - IMG_4590.JPG
Some of the stands were quite elaborate. - IMG_4591.JPG
our favorite Creedence cover band - IMG_4593.JPG
We enjoy a ham sandwich. - IMG_4594.JPG
entering Sachsenhausen concentration camp - IMG_4595.JPG
The Soviets' memorial to the victims of the camp. Well, the communist victims anyway. Statues in classic beefy style. - IMG_4596.JPG
path down to the execution trench. seriously creepy. - IMG_4597.JPG
Rocks mark the trenches filled with human ash. - IMG_4598.JPG
a non-soviet memorial - IMG_4599.JPG
remains of the gas chamber, execution room, and crematorium - IMG_4600.JPG
yeah, those are just what you think they are. - IMG_4601.JPG
bacon-flavored chips, actually quite good - IMG_4602.JPG
I finally obtain some satisfactory fruit and commence "free-form tart" baking. - IMG_4603.JPG
lacking a rolling pin... - IMG_4605.JPG
yes, very free-form - IMG_4608.JPG
We visit a very cool museum of musical instruments and take this one picture showing how they get that black glossy piano finish. - IMG_4609.JPG
From our windows, I watched (and listened to) three storms roll in. - IMG_4612.JPG
We take a jaunt to a lake outside Berlin for some afternoon swimming. - IMG_4613.JPG
natives! - IMG_4614.JPG
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TV tower at night, from the front door of our apartment building. - IMG_4617.JPG
Hey, it's Michael! - IMG_4618.JPG
Just back for his second stint in Germany, we take advantage again of our overlapping weeks. - IMG_4619.JPG
another night out at the Kunsthaus Tacheles - IMG_4620.JPG
playing on big guns - IMG_4621.JPG
whee! - IMG_4622.JPG
We followed the thumping music through the park to this random music festival. Together, we make street fairs happen.