Since we had a 3.5 hr drive home we wanted to get an early start. We quickly drove by the Olympic stadium (where there was a color run going on) and then stopped to walk around Schloss Charlottenburg. I had read that there were renovations going on inside and that some of the most impressive rooms were closed, so we didn’t do the tour (hopefully we’ll make it back there in a couple years) and just walked around the grounds for a while. The drive home ended up taking FOREVER.. there was lots of road construction so our GPS detoured us to “avoid traffic delays” and made us go through Potsdam/Sanssouci which was a TERRIBLE idea. Since it was a nice Sunday, everyone and their brother went here to walk around the parks and see the palaces. I think this “time saving detour” added on 1 hr. The town is fairly small and it was a 4 lane road getting through it but two lands were closed so traffic was all backed up. However I do want to go back to Sanssouci someday – it looked really beautiful. The rest of the drive home was fairly uneventful, other than the mass exodus of the entire population of Poland towards western Germany. I swear every car around us on the A2 was from Poland!
