Happy Birthday Mom!

A special sighting on a special day. Three lynx crossed the road infront of me. They are such a funny looking rabbit-like cat.

Berlin Series: Potsdam

Prior to our jaunt through Scandinavia, we spent a week in Berlin. We managed to pull ourselves away from the intense history and culture of the city core to hop on a train and travel to Potsdam. Here we wandered around vast parks full of palaces and castles built for Prussian royalty. Strolled past a lonely Lenin bust and the building where the US, Soviet Union and United Kingdom decided how to divvy up Germany. We also found the best slides ever…