Berlin. Early morning start after a rather rough night train ride (last one, though!). We didn't fully know what to expect, so we spent the first day full of curiosity and exploring. This is a city of opposites and history and contradiction and hope. From top left: the historic Brandenburg gate, the Rosenstrasse women's memorial, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Memorial to the July 10, 1933 Nazi book burning, the reverent silence around Neue Wache with the statue of a woman and her dead son commemorating the victims of war and tyranny, a giant waffle treat in Alexanderplaz, the world clock that the kids read about in the City Spies book series, the juxtaposition of a church that MLK Jr preached at next to the TV tower as a symbol of Soviet power, and a tasty 4 course dinner together as we reminisced about our day.