Day 2

Day 2:

Brandenburg. This was one of Carson's favorite areas. We attended church here and the 

branch was so kind. This is a picture I took walking back to the car after church. 

We were with Matthew and Inette Smith and Simon Batzke. We ate lunch at the 

Batzke home and then later we had dinner at the Smith's. 

I will always be so grateful to these wonderful people. They were so good to Carson

and made him feel loved while he was away from home. 

 We got caught in a rainstorm and had to hide under an overhang until we got brave enough to

dash into a near by cafe where we had gelato and waited out the storm.

 Here is the smith home. The branch President and his family the Osbeck's joined us for dinner.

That is their beautiful daughter on the top right. She was so cute, I just had to get a picture

of her. Carson had a special relationship with these people. They had him over for 

Christmas and were his family when we couldn't be together.

 This is Brother Randow. He meant a lot to Carson while he was in Brandenborg.

 This is Maurice. We only stopped by for a few minutes and he favored us with a song on his

guitar. 

Doener's

Carson took us to a really great place that is famous in his mission for their yummy

doener's. This was definitely worth the search to try and find it. Since Carson

was a walking mission, he had a hard time finding things from a cars perspective.

We loved this place and might try to go back and get one more doener before 

we fly out on Saturday morning.

This was the view from across the street. I just love the streets here in Germany.

Return to Germany

Here we are, two years later! Carson is home and we are back visiting his mission. We love Germany! It is so beautiful here.

Day 1:

Berlin. Here we are at Brandenburg Gate. It's less than a five minute walk from where we are staying.

Here is the Holocaust museum that we visited. Really cool place.

We rented bikes and rode all over Berlin. Here you can see the victory tower and the

tier garten. It means animal garden. It was beautiful! I went for a run in this

garden the next morning. It was super cool!

Here is the cafe we stopped by to eat lunch.

Carson had some nasty drink. It was non alcoholic, but tasted and smelled kinda weird. 

Here is part of the Berlin wall that still remains. Really cool that it has come down

and that Germans now enjoy some freedoms that they didn't have before.

Here is a Palace in Potsdam. I kept thinking of Jane Austen and could just imagine

pulling up in a carriage and walking the extensive grounds. 

The gardens were beautiful!