Festival for New US Embassy in Berlin

For the official opening yesterday with only invited guests, it rained cats and dogs and most left early, as soon as the speeches were over.
But today, for the festival for normal people, ...

... what the 4th of July was really all about, the sun was shining, 250,000 people were there and happy, the food was good, the music was great, and we were there and took some pix (see above). Obama's stand received more attention than any other info offering, the US Embassy's stand indeed offering nothing at all, not even a copy of the Declaration of Independence. The stand of the German government did provide a very nice booklet of 60 years of US-German (Federal Republic) friendship in photos, filling a gap that the playpen left open.