We've been home for three whole days. Well, that's just too long! Time for another road trip. How about Berlin? It's only a day's train away. We've packed 7 hours' worth of kids' entertainment for the train (books, cards, Connect-4, math journal papers), which sounds like a lot unless your trip is 8 hours, or in our case 9, making the last hour of the trip a veritable whine fest. The kids were getting whiney, as well.
We perk up when we reach the Berlin Hauptbahnhof and see Oma waiting for us on the platform. The kids fall upon her like they hadn't seen her in 100 years, though it's only been about 100 hours.
Then it's midnight-grocery-shopping before the stores in Berlin, by law, must close for Sunday.
Ever seen a two-storey grocery store? This one has a stairless magnetic escalator that you and your shopping cart can ride between floors. These Germans have thought of everything.
I've seen a few before, in Spain and Korea.
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