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 The Berlin Zoo was the best zoo I have ever been to! It was massive and had so many animals! And most of the cages were well done, with decent space and habitat.

There were so many baby animals! They were sooooo adorable! This baby deer/gazelle was the first of many. Baby birds, monkeys, pigs, etc

 Polar bears! I could have watched them all day! The only weird thing was the one above, we decided it is a "special" bear-maybe it has gone insane? Anyway, it was on a repeat of back and forth and then would wave its head up and down, every time we passed this exhibit, the poor guy was still stuck doing that!

 Guess what bird this is! A kookaburra! You know, like in the song! This one was beautiful!

 If you have to play "I spy" in this picture, I did too in person. There were a bunch of birds in this cage and I spotted these two owls that blended in so well no one noticed them!

Nesting birdie =)

Awwwwww! This was the cutest thing! The Daddy bird got some straw/branches from the bushes below and then brought them up to his wifey and is handing her them. Then she proceeds to tuck the pieces in while he goes and gets more straw. It was so special to be able to watch this intimate little birdie moment!

 Flamingos!

 These two flamingos were really aggressive! They came out of their little hole with a snotty, proud look like kings, made obnoxious honking and then ran really fast at all us visitors with their arms out. It was somewhere between cool, funny, and scary haha

These were really fun to watch-this one's expression is so intense! I wonder what it was thinking: "I see you" or maybe "I'm going to eat you"

Wolves! They were really fun to watch. They ran around playing and chasing each other, it was clear who were the pack leaders, social interactions, it was pretty awesome!

Getting ready to pounce! 

Jackles! I don't think I have ever seen these at a zoo and look at the cage. At first I thought the railing was all that was dividing me and these wild dogs, but I was happy to see the little electric fence, but still it's not much of a fence.

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Like my Bentley?

This is the hotel that Michael Jackson hung his baby over the balcony

U.S. Embassy! My foot is on U.S. territory- a little comfort and reminder of home =)

Why is everything so much cooler in Europe than in the U.S.?? Even the Dunkin Doughnuts are awesome! Granted it was Easter morning, but check out the options on the menu-there's so many and so many yummy options!

These were so yummy! We woke up early and went to church at 8am, so these were my Easter basket lol

After church, we wandered this street, took pics, window shopped, and hugged Mr. Berlin Bear before going to the zoo

Berlin, Germany

If you haven;t checked out the itinerary, than I will inform you that all of the pictures on this post are from about 30-45 hours of no sleep, so be impressed haha. We left Nicosia at mindnight and then our plane left about three hours from Larnaca. Then we had a 5 hour layover in Munich at maybe 5am, then got into Berlin about noon. So, that is a solid 12 hours of travel time. The first city of the trip was Berlin. We went directly from the airport to a bus tour for several hours of the city. Most of these are pcitures from that. Overall I really liked Berlin! Everyone was feindly and there was a lot to do, however it was quite spread out so we had to take the tram everywhere.

 The pink things are supplying the city with water and they are everywhere! I think they are kinda artsy =)

 That my friends is the Berlin Wall

 This is a really famous painting on th wall, it is of I think a Russian and some other leader/politician they were not a fan of

This is one of the Haulocost memorials. It is suppose to represent all the people who died-young, old, short, and tall which are represented in the different sizes and heights of the stones. Also note that much of these pictures are all famous buildings and places, but I was exhausted and don't remember most of it.

 Checkpoint Charlie

After the bus tour, we walked down to the mall. The first day in Berlin was ICEY cold with whipping wind and knawing cold. I have never seen so many people. There was probably 3,000 people at the food court alone.

 I think New England weather is following me! Yes, that is SNOW! I couldn't believe it! It was pretty but gives you an idea how cold it was-especially to walk 30 minutes back to the hotel and there were horrible wind tunnels and pockets.

 The lounge bar had free wifi and was a nice place to settle for the night. It was nice because the other group members would walk by in pairs and groups and we would catch up and talk about the day, then most of them would join us. By the end of the night half the group was sitting around us-eating, on laptops, chatting, and just hanging out. It was great bonging time. Oh and the German beer was actually pretty good-especially considering I don't really like beer!