Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day Mom and Mutti!!! We drove with the family today to the Niederfinow boat lift an engineering marvel.....yes I still am a geek at heart. This is the view from the top of the boat lift. As you can see from the photo the boats are lining up to get lifted from the lower Oder to the highest point on the Oder-Havel canal. Quite and engineering feat considering the ships are being lifted approximately 36 meters and weigh thousand of tons. The lifting process only takes 20 minutes which reduced the time required previously by utilizing the locks system. Very, very impressive!!!