Photography Playground

Small update first.  It has been nearly 10 days since my last post.  We are doing great we have just been super duper busy.  I am going to try to catch up over the next few days and will be dating the post the days they happened rather than the day I'm writing.  The biggest reason I decided to write a blog was so that at the end of our adventure here we would have a diary of sorts that I could print out.  Did you know you can print out a blog?  I've done it in the past and they turn out pretty well.  Blog2print is the company I have used. 

OK... onto the post and catching up:

Sunday was the day of the Berlin marathon. Apparently, on this course, more world records have been set by both men and women than any other course.  It has to be because Berlin is so flat.  Olympus Photography Playground.  I had several friends who had gone in weeks past and we finally got around to going.  It was, unfortunately, the very last day of the tour in Berlin and unlike other days the lines were insane to get in. 

We aren't typically line standers
but we did this for 90 minutes. 

Entrance was free... if you were willing to spend 90 minutes in line. 
Josie was super excited about it and kept us motivated to stick it out.  I have to say we have never stood in a line this long to do anything before.  But it was a Sunday in Berlin and as all other line standers told us, "what else was there to do?"  So we stood.  The kids for 95% of the time did great and we all found ways to entertain ourselves.  Once inside we were each handed a new, state of the art, Olympus camera to take photos with as we roamed the exhibit.  They loaded each camera with a memory card and as we exited we handed back the cameras and they handed us the memory card.  The entire thing from start to finish was SO Berlin.  Artsy, organized, cool and logical. 

Josie really took off and had a mission.  She wore the camera like a pro and was directing us to be in certain photos or to stay out of certain photos. 

The rest of us meandered through the cool exhibits

which was spread over three floors of a darkened warehouse.  Soft light was on each exhibit and there were lines inside to get a photo at a few of the exhibits but for the most part we just walked around and snapped photos.

Cool graffiti outside the exhibit

After the exhibit we were starving - must've been that 90 minutes standing in line.  So we headed to a new Indian restaurant and Josie, who currently HATES Indian food, mostly because Benjamin LOVES Indian food said, "OK, it wasn't the worst thing in the world" So all in all successful and fun and artsy Sunday. 



Some of the photos taken during our time in the playgroun

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