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The March list of live music for the Austin Airport. Yeah, the Airport.
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You don't see many pickup trucks in Germany. This one would look normal in
Texas, but stuck out in Germany.
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Rick and Kara and Erich in Berlin. I went to visit Rick and Kara, so you will see them in lots of the pictures.
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A picture across the river in Berlin
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Another building in Berlin
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Some views from Rick and Kara's apartment. It's flury-ing, but the snow isn't sticking.
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This is a bakery right across the street. They make really good jelly
doughnuts, but stay away from the black stuff made with figs or plums or
something.
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Rick and Kara in the Kitchen
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While Rick was at work, Kara and I visited some stuff around Dresden.
This is a picture from the Zwinger Museum complex, outside the
Math and Physics museum, which had lots of rulers and globes and stuff.
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More pictures around the Zwinger...
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A fountain area. I'll have to go back and see it in the summer when the fountains are going. Anyone want to stich these photos together for me for a panorama pic?
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The Zwinger was built for some king to get married in, but it didn't end up
happening there. Anyway, the crown is the crown of the king that was supposed
to get married.
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Some flowers in front of .. maybe the opera house?
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This is a pic from under the arch of the opera house, towards a church steeple.
Unfortunately, I didn't get in the opera house this time -- maybe next time.
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The Elbe river. The trail along one side of the Elbe goes for hundreds
of miles. It's on my list of things to do when I have the time.
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Kara in front of the Elbe
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Peter told me to take lots of pictures, so more shots around the Elbe
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This is the Frauenkirche, which was bombed during WWII and fell, and now is being rebuilt.
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Rick and I in front of the Albertinium museum.
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A nice row of cafes getting ready for the evening...
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This is in a big park that is right near Rick and Kara's apartment.
Rick and I went for a little hike on Saturday morning.
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Saturday Afternoon, we went for a walk around a nice part of town that
was hilly.
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... and then we went to a brewery pub.
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Gas is expensive in Germany.
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Sunday we went to Sachsische Schweiz (Saxon Switzerland) National Park.
It's very near Dresden. We went to one of the more famous parts, Bastei.
The river below is the Elbe, the same one that goes through Dresden (and Prague).
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Here you can see Rick and Kara, and also the famous bridge of Bastei.
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Wildflowers starting to bloom.
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So these pictures are from back in Rick and Kara's apartment.
These are just some pictures of the windows in their apartment. They're
really cool: the handle down locks the window in place, the handle
horizontal allows opening along the side, and the handle straight up allows the
top to open a crack.
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Sunday evening, Rick and Kara and I listened to the Georgia Tech Elite
Eight game over Real Audio. We won! So we had some beer to celebrate.
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Monday we went to Prague. There was snow on the way over the mountains
separating Germany from the Czech Republic.
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Rick and Kara in front of a church in Prague. It had a fancy clock.
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It also has a really tall steeple that you can go up to the top of.
Pictures from the top are down a few.
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This is the fancy clock.
You can see a movie of the clock going off here,
but it didn't turn out all that great because I didn't zoom in enough.
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Looking down from the top of that church.
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The view from the top of the church. You might like this.
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Across the river in Prague
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They were blinded by the light... wrapped up like a duce another runner in the night...
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This is a bridge that, for a long time, was the only bridge connecting the two sides of Prague. Lots of interesting statues and street vendors and stuff.
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The view from the top of the hill (the hill with the castle and stuff on top).
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Little did I know that I would see Paul and Evanda in Prague. In case you can't tell, Paul is the one with the club.
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Churches in Europe are too big for my camera.
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AFLAK!
You can see that bridge that we crossed in the background.
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This is back in Dresden now. In germany, they spell Erich correctly.
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Some of the houses in Dresden are really run down, but because they are made
with stone and brick, they'll stick around for a while.
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Rental prices in Dresden.
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Looking at the Albertinium, and the Frauenkirche in the background.
This whole thing I'm standing on used to be a moat and fortificatios.
The moat was (at least, partially) filled in, and the fortifications covered
over, and a little park put on top. The underneath is now a museum. But
much of the stuff on top (including trees) are on top of a big building
that has empty space underneath. Pretty neat.
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Pictures from the top of the little garten in front of the Albertinium along the Elbe. Spring is coming, you can tell!
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You can't tell, but there is a pretty spacious hall under these trees.
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This is in the Afternoon, in the Grossegarden (literally, big garden).
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There is a zoo in the Grossegarden. They even have lions, and we got to
see the lion have some lunch.
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Cute little rodent things eating apples.
You can see a picture of a "prairiehund" yelping here.
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Peacock at the zoo
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Kara is blending right in with the flamingos.
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Rick in front of a fountain that has just turned on for the spring.
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