June 1, 2015 (Berlin, Germany)

After a nights rest on a soft bed we set off from our room at around 9:45. Our first stop was the Bauhaus Museum which was a museum full of modern furniture and modern architecture. Our taxi driver over was really grumpy and Mom was taking pictures of the man's taxi info incase something happened to us. All of the museum's pieces had been made before WWII! The people of the Bauhaus made furniture clean cheap, efficient, but it was still cool. Cheap, because Germany needed to pay back debt from WWI, which made there economy worse.

Our next museum we visited was the Neues Museum that had a great Egyptian and Neanderthal exhibit. There we saw many Egyptian artifacts including the well intact Queen Nefertiti bust. Queen Nefertiti was beautiful, and at that time of Egyptian art these were some of the first realistic looking images.  Another old artifact that I thought was interesting was the golden cap, that was not used by the Egyptians but by a kind of astrologer/priest during the Bronze Age. That had could have been as old as 3000 b.c.It is considered the finest piece of metal work during that era. 

Next we ate lunch at an Italian restaurant before walking over to the DDR museum. The DDR museum was the museum of East Berlin (Soviet Union property). That side of Berlin was run by the Communists. All of the people lived in the same kind of apartment, got paid the same, and were not able to get some of the items other countries had. The main car that most o the people had was a car made by the Soviet Union which had a 2 stroke engine. This kind of car couldn't be turned into any vehicle of war like a tank. While West Berlin was all modern and nice and driving Mercedez Benzes. The Berlin wall was up from  1961-1989

We kept on walking and walked into a Protestant Cathedral called the Berlin Cathedral or Berlin Dome,  which was beautiful. It had a big dome inside that had sculptures of the 4 protestants that started the Reformation. There were also stained glass windows that were pretty too.

Getting back to the hotel we took Uber, and once arrived we got to relax for a little bit before leaving to eat dinner with the Sister Missionaries. When we arrived at the restaurant we waited for the missionaries for about 40 min, they got caught up in public transportation. We were excited to see one in particular, it was our cousin, Grace Hendricks who was serving her LDS mission in Berlin, Germany! We also met her companion who was German from Stuttgart and spoke great English!

At the hotel we did one of our blogs, and I slept on the chair in our room. ;)