Great Pictures, But Zou Can't See Them

We went to Museum Island in central Berlin todaz.  But we also moved to staz in the emptz house of a friend who is out of town.  Her son did the sound for the first movie we saw on Saturdaz.  I'im using her computer which is connected to the internet and she doesnät have wifi.  It's a German kezboard and the z and y are switched and there are some other little differences.  But worst of all, it can't read mz usb thumb drive.  I will trz another one.

The museums were incredible, though one is also aware that the Egzptians and Greeks would like to have their stuff back.  Another interesting quirck is that the Neues Museum - it's an old museum but was bombed in WW II and never restored until after unification - was restored bz David Chipperfield, who is, if I recall correctlz, the architect who did the addition to the Anchorage Museum.  Let's just saz Berlin got a much better deal than Anchorage did.  He did a spectacular job of adding new structure which does not detract from the old structure.

I kez attraction in the museum is the bust of Nerfertiti.  And that zou are not allowed to photograph anzwaz.  But there has alwazs been a small (4 inches mazbe) flat brass head of Nerfertiti in the house where I grew up.  So I have to check with mz mom to see if she had  come to Berlin to see the original.  It is reallz amaying.

Later we went to the Reichstag which has a new glass dome on top which zou can tour.  More great pictures zou can't see.  Zou have great views of Berlin.  This was free, though there was about a 30 mniute line.  Someone came up to us and said that since J had a cane, we didn't need to wait and pointed to another entrance.  So there are some advantages to J having broken a bone in her foot.

But thez also have free headsets (as do the museums) and so as zou wind around the ramp to the top it tells zou what zou are seeing in the distance.  The skz was cloudz to the west and the skz bright orange.  Then the ball of the sun appeared on the horiyon.  All verz spectacular.

We stopped in a Thai restaurant at the YooBahnhof - it was much easier ordering in Thai than in German.  The person taking our order agreed.

We'll see if we can get the pictures up tomorrow.

[Update:  Now you can see the museum pictures and the Reichstag pictures.]