More of Berlin & Donna's visit - August 2009

Dave's cousin, Donna, came to visit. We had just moved to a new "city" and so we set off in search of new playgrounds. We found a pretty nice one - climbing structures and space enough to play frisbee!

Lilli, Tipton & Donna at the top of the climbing structure.

Donna, Lilli & Tipton coming down the slide.

Action photo of Tipton throwing the frisbee.

Action photo of Lilli throwing the frisbee.

Our trip to Berlin:

Standing under the elusive and questionably named "Cow Bridge" (Or was it Cow Gate? Cow Arch?) on our way to Berlin.

Our first full day in Berlin we walked to the zoo from our hotel. Along the way we saw lots of bears. We thought the Irish Bear was particularly amusing.

Lilli's favorite was the Danish bear, because it has pictures from Hans Christian Andersson's stories, including (and most importantly) The Little Mermaid.

Tipton's favorite was the French bear, because it had lots of GOLD.

I forget the 'nationality' of Donna's favorite bear, but she liked it for the guitars.

City Pissoir. Really, this needs no explanation.

Tipton and Lilli being really cute at the zoo.

Standing at the famous elephant gate at the Berlin Zoo.

The zoo had an excellent playground. Tipton liked climbing into/inside/on top of the giant egg.

Lilli liked running all over the wooden climbing structures. She did not want to leave. Dave had to chase her down.

Donna in front of Knut's exhibit (a very famous polar bear.)

Jenn & Lilli in front of the other polar bear exhibit. (Not as famous as Knut, but still pretty cool.)

Dave & Tipton in front of the other polar bear exhibit.

Near the end of our day everyone was really tired. Lilli did a great job of walking almost the entire way. She ran out of steam towards the end and hitched a ride on Daddy's shoulders.