Potsdam

On Saturday we went to Potsdam, a cute little city right outside of Berlin. It's about a 45 minute train ride. This is Sabrina, Adam, Cooper and Patrick waiting for the train.
This is Pat checking to make sure we're about to get on the right train.
We made it! This street is full of great little shops and places to eat.
This is a replica of the Brandenburg Gate.
You wouldn't believe how many times I've seen an accordian street performer since I've been in Germany. At least 10...not exaggerating! Here's one right here:
Classic Berlin eats: Doner Kebab!
I should have taken a picture of it before I smashed it together and starting eating it. These things are massive and dirt cheap. You can get them for around 3 bucks and it's plenty of food to share with your spouse.

After lunch and shopping we headed to Sanssouci Palace.
The kings of Prussia lived here in the early 1900s.
(It was Cooper's nap time)
These are the terraced gardens.


The other photographer.(I wanted to put some of Pat's pictures up, but I keep getting a "Bad request" warning when I try to upload them. Maybe I'll put it on a separate post.)

The grounds are huge...it seems like they go on forever. We did so much walking that we felt we deserved one of these...also classic Berlin eats - rostbratwurst. Also a steal at around 2 bucks.
While we were enjoying our rostbratwurst, we noticed a couple pushing their dogs in a doll stroller. Nice... Later we saw the man pushing the dogs in the doll stroller. All I have to say is I never want to hear men complain about carrying a girly diaper bag because at least we don't make you push dogs in a doll stroller.
Our trip to Potsdam was so fun. The weather was great, Cooper was an angel and we were exhausted but not dead when we got home.

And check out this awesome souvenir I found on the street when we got off the bus.

It even has the city of Potsdam seal. What a great find! An old crazy guy saw it hanging out of the stroller and started yelling something at us. I thought he was gonna say we stole it from him or something, but he just thought we should put it on the front of our stroller like a license plate. We kind of laughed and humored him by placing it below Cooper's feet, but when he was out of sight we threw it back in the storage bin under the stroller. About five minutes later the crazy guy was pushing his way through the crowd toward us so he could "check" to make sure our license plate was still there. We told him it kept falling off, but if he had some tape we could secure it. He said he had something to fix it and reached in his pockets and handed us a single screw. Thanks dude.