Today we spent the day at an amusement park near Cologne. I had a lot of fun there. The sign above made me laugh, with it's bad english translations and all the red circles. So german. Not suitable for back or neck boneillness, or heart complaint. Also, you must be over 1.3 meters and under 2 meters tall. It was a sort of rollercoaster.
This double decker carrousel was decked out for the holiday.
The best part about this amusement park is, most of the rides are invisible from the outside, so you never actually know what you're getting into. You walk in, down stairs, up stairs, down a hallway, more stairs, down another hallway, and then you find out what you're in for. Everyone walked in and looked up, then walked out the exit. I talked Susanna into riding this with me, then after some convincing Markus did later. This tower (turm) is 200 feet tall, and it's actually a high tech ride inside. This was my favorite, I did it twice. It was like a falling dream come true. Just up, then down--fast. The feeling was fantastic.
An outdoor amusement park would not be possible in the Wisconsin winter, it was tolerable here. Also, luckily I had my long underwear on and some of the rides were indoors. Another interesting ride was in Chinatown. It was like "It's a small world" in Disneyland, but with a very dark twist. Seated in a half shell, you ride through the dark as the giant scenes pass by....Dragons and skeletons sailing ships in real water, giants tied up with little people climbing them, chinese ghost men with talking heads, bones hanging from the ceiling, graves with only hands reaching out, chinese royalty with 3 left hands, chinese women having tea...and everything in a repetitive robotic motion, giving it half life. I'm exhausted now, we spent 8 hours there.
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