Paranoid, Extremely Angry (Dresden was fun!)

We went to Dresden! I purchased a new camera! And we saw many beautiful things. We had a lovely time on Breanne's Birthday weekend in nearby Dresden, Germany. The city is most known because it was destroyed in WWII (see: Slaughter-house 5). But it has been rebuilt quite a bit and is a very nice place to walk around and see the sights.
The city was mainly developed under Augustus the Great and his sons/fathers/family (they were all named Augustus the something, so I'm a bit sketchy on the details), who brought in a bunch of art to the museum and built a bunch of churches and other large buildings.
Here is the comprehensive slideshow:

So.. Germany! Thank goodness. It was great to be somewhere where I understand the language. I could speak to shopkeepers and waiters and all, which made me feel very empowered. However, they were all also eager to speak English. This is so different from Prague; even after we express that we know no Czech, everyone here will keep talking to us in it. Different world.
Germany was also nice for its clean, open, and organized grocery stores and other such accessibility (quote: "This only has two languages on it, and one of them is English!" vs. Prague, where everything is in 5 different Slavic languages).
We stayed in very clean, pleasant, and colorfully painted Hostel Mondpalast, which is located right in the middle of the night-life action.
So, good game, team!
Highlights: re-visiting the Zwinger museum of old masters, to see:
(I also bought a print.)Learning about otherwise smiley and innocent midwestern Ali's eyebrow-raised suspicious face:
Taking pictures with all the many boroque statues:german pastries!!!
And of course... taking pictures with my new camera!
(the color is called "bohemian brown")