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nice signs
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Oh yes, a giant giraffe made of legos. Not part of the parade.
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What are those polar bears doing?
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looking down at tourists piling their children on a lizard fountain for a photo op
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Michael tries out the trunk of the...oh, some fancy car
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Seneca
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This was one of the more homemade efforts.
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Evidently Gaudi thought fruit baskets were an appropriate turret-topper
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our sweet little room
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Characteristic float: 18-wheeler with powerful speakers and two levels of dancing gays.
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Finally, homeward-bound. Bryan looks up in the foyer of the building where we rented a studio apartment for the week.
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Revisiting the Bebelplatz memorial of Nazi book-burnings.
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another more creative float
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lunch location: street food at the popular Curry 36
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really, excellent outfits
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Leslie in front of some extravagantly etched building
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some modern religious friezes
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some unappealing candy machines
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at least one picture with us
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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.
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The former Nazi air force headquarters, which surprisingly survived the war and now houses the German IRS.
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site of Hitler's bunker and then the swankiest apartments in East Germany
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Fortunately, the rain stopped before the parade arrived.
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looking from the inside to the outside
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in Victoria Park