Another stellar day in Berlin........even if the world around isn't so great at the moment

Today started and ended on a somber note..... We started at the Jewish Museum of Berlin.  Another very WELL DONE museum.  Your heart aches to see the transformation in treatment of the Jewish people.  The real life accounts and personal belongings were very very moving.  It was almost too much for the mind and heart to handle in one visit.  Then, on a much lighter note, we went to Kadewe a HUGE shopping store.  We ate lunch at one of the multitude of food offerings on one of the floors.  I was a little overwhelmed with all the choices.  I split a brat at the brat stand, had some cucumber salad from the deli and then finished it off with a scoop of chocolate and a scoop of raspberry at the crepe place.  Did a little damage shopping and then walked (didn't think that through w/the shopping bag from beforehand) to the bombed out church.  They left the bombed out church as a reminder and built the new church next to it.  From the outside the new church isn't very church like or striking but inside is another story.  Blue glass everywhere.  Stunning.  Had to sit in a pew for a bit and take it all in.  To end the night we went to the cathedral to hear an organ concert.  Was feeling pretty upbeat until we made it back to the hotel and heard about the shootings in Munich, where we just were a few days ago. Let's all say a prayer that good wins over evil and that we don't repeat the horrors of the past.........  

 

Had to lighten the mood after so much heaviness and heartache...

 

2nd stop of the day much lighter......SHOPPING!

 

Somber again....bombed out church

 

Bombed church......new church

 

Last thing of the day....organ concert in the cathedral