The sixth and seventh of June

For these past two days my family and I have been in Germany. Unlike the rest of the trip, we will stay in Berlin for four days. I think this is really good, because we won’t have the hassle of unpacking and leaving soon. This is what has happened so far:

On the 6th of June, we went on a subway train to Lego Land. It was at the Sony Centre, under the ground. Everywhere there was Lego men and women, and at the front were two tiny Lego people, one male and the other female. The man held a huge Lego tube of tooth-paste, which said, “Dr. Tooth”. The woman held a giant toothbrush. You walked right past them, down a stairway to Lego Land. At the start was a Lego Film, a pretend Lego factory, where you would see how Lego was made, which was quite interesting. After that, I built a building of Lego and put it on a place called the “Gravity Table”, where you put your creation on the table and turned a knob. If you turned it to the right, the table would shake violently. You could turn the knob left to turn it down. The objective was to see how sturdy your piece was. After that we went on the Lego Safari, which you have seen photos of. One thing I did not mention was that there was questions on the way of things like, “How many lizards can you find?” or “What does a Hippo eat?” Later we went to “Mini Berlin”, and you have seen photos of that, too. Then, we went on a ride, and it was about a dragon and a German village. A four dimensional movie was what we did at half past twelve. It was about an evil wizard and war between good and bad. There would be occasional 4D effects, and it did frighten me at points. We left after that, and went on to a hop-on hop-off bus tour around the city, and saw HEAPS of things. Three of them are: A statue put up by the French to represent peace, Checkpoint Charlie, (a separation between the West and East) and the Reichstag. That is it for the seventh day we had!

Our eighth day was great, infact, one of my favorites! We caught a train into the city to look at some shops. In the middle of the entrance to the shops was a huge water clock. How it worked was it had big jugs from one to twelve on the left. The jugs filled up to the correct hour. On the right were jugs from numbers five, ten, fifteen, twenty, and so on all the way to sixty. You determined the minutes when the water filled to the right height, which was labeled. When the water was filled in between, you would say it was roughly about two point five minutes over the jug before. I was the one to figure it out! After we had a crepe, I had strawberry jam, and my brother had chocolate. We also went to a look at a church. On the roof on the inside were angels and kings as well as gods carved through stone. The church was not very big, but a stairway led up to where people would come on Sundays. That area was cut off for visitors. Then, we grabbed another quick snack, a German bread pretzel! They were great! Next, we went to the zoo, the largest zoo in Europe. There were crazy animals, ones you guys probably haven’t seen! I will send you a slide soon of pictures; you might think they’re not real! After the zoo, we caught a train and went to dinner with my dad and Leith, which was funny, because the food we had was Mexican – but Jack and I had hamburgers! Ha ha! Although, we both did have Mexican entrées, which were strips of spicy chicken. I am not sure of what the grown- ups had, but I can guarantee, my dad had something VERY hot!