You Win Some, and Well, You Know . . .
Yesterday we decided that we needed to go see our neighborhood tower, the Funkturm or the radio transmitter. We can see it out our window now that all the leaves are gone, and it is lit up all night and until the kids leave for school in the morning.We wanted to go up in the daytime and yesterday was clear, so we rode the two bus stops and paid our money and went up. It is a much smaller deal than the TV tower in the east, and felt less secure going up in the elevator. Maddie started to get anxious on the way up, and she was at a fine pitch by the time we got out.
Here is the view back to our house. It is the third house to the right of the green lawn on the lake. Then I started to notice that things weren't staying put when I looked at them. I felt a little nauseous and I wondered if I had vertigo. But when you are at the top of a metal structure on a windy day, there is some movement -- whoo! I'm getting dizzy now just remembering it!
Maddie was panicked, so I agreed to take her down after I went once around the tower and saw the view. Then Will got scared and he wanted to come down. Sebastian wants to do whatever Will does (like get all of his hair shorn like the Turkish rappers . . . ) so Sebi came too. Rob stayed up at the top and took pictures, but the rest of us stayed for less than ten minutes.
It wasn't the most successful sightseeing trip we've had.
So we decided to ride our usual bus to the end of the line, just to see where it goes. It goes way, way out. The further out it went, the higher and higher the average age of the passengers climbed. We finally got out at Alt Pichelsdorf which is a green suburb just past the Havel River. We found a nice park with a lake and a playground, which is the one essential in any of our outings.
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