Thursday, July 24, 2008

Where's Waldo? Berlin Edition

We got to Berlin's Tiergarten Park at 1:30pm thinking that Obama's speech started at 4pm. Turns out that the speech started at 7pm, so we were really early. See if you can find Russell and Maya in this photo that Josh found on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle online. The answer is on the next photo.





Below, Josh enlarged it and put arrows on it. Maya is on Josh's shoulders.





The speech was great. Basically, Obama said what Josh told Radio Deutschland he would say, part of which was, "Europe has got to get off its butt and help out more with the situation in Afghanistan," but Obama phrased it a little more diplomatically than Josh did. Obama said a bunch of other things about hope and change, no nukes, and global warming. Ya-da, ya-da, ya-da.

Then, at the end, Obama came off the podium and shook hands with the crowd in front. Russell shook Obama's hand. We'll upload the close-up photos we took when we get back to Zurich on Sunday.

Russell says he's never washing his hand again.

2 comments:

Julie said...

What amazing experiences you all are having. Your kids will talk about seeing the president (hopefully) in Berlin when he was just a candidate for the rest of their lives!

Also, love your living space, the combination of clean modern and clean rural is becoming so rare, it almost seems like sci-fi.

Julie

adina-r said...

Very cool. Have a great weekend in Berlin!