ho hum.

well well wellll!!!
yesterday we went out to Wolfsburg to visit the Autostadt! which is where volkswagons factory is and their little volkswagon city! it was actually really cool. you get into it via this walking bridge (you can also drive in...but we didnt...) and then your in this big building where you buy tickets and stuff. which were kind of expensive. but it had like, three restaurants and a shop inside. then you could walk out and Volkswagen,  Lambourghini, Audi, Seat, and Skoda pavillions, which were just buildings which had the cars inside. the Lambourghini pavillion was weird. you walked in, and there was this orange lambo on the wall, and then it was just a bunch of really loud engine sounds and some b.a. music, and weird lights and smoke...then the wall turned around for a bit, then it came back in...and thats all it was.
all the other ones were actual showcases of their cars and stuff.
there was also a Premium Clubhouse, which only had one car in it, but it was a Bugatti and painted witha mirror paint. it was sooo very nice. i liked it..
and then they had a museum and a place to buy cars, as well as the two towers which each hold 400 cars, and there are car elevators, and they distribute 500-600 a day. it was cool to watch the elevators go up and down with the cars. you could also tour the factory, but not on weekends, which we didnt know, so we couldnt tour it.
there was also a terrain driving course which, if you made a reservation, you could get a car and go all over these different terrains, like stairs and mud and water and stuff...jake wanted to but we didnt have a reservation. hah.
then today, we went to Topography of Terror, which is the site of the old Gestapo and SS headquarters. its just their foundations, which were dug up a while after the war. it was kind of cool, because it was also located right next to a large strip of the berlin wall, so it was interesting to see how the different hard times in berlin's life were so close to each other...ya know?
we also did the Reichstag today, which was really pretty. its their main parliament building, but on the top they have this big dome which you can go up for free to visit. theres also an audio guide with it, and so it tells you about all of the city on the outside of the dome, and what goes on inside. in the middle of the dome, you can look down and see the parliament doing its sessions. we were there at night, and berlin is super pretty at night.
tomorrow we move onto munich, and its going to be a bit sad to leave berlin, we've both really enjoyed our times here.

also i bought a faux fur hat today. :D

--t