Guided Tours

So I missed a day or two so this blog is going to encompas two days of things.

Day 1
I started the day at my aunts friend sarahs house, she and her husband were kind enough to give us a tour of a somewhat nearby open air museum. The museum was of old houses and buildings from 1600-1800 that had been scheduled for demolition. This group had methodically taken apart the buildings and then transported them to the museum. Then they rebuilt the houses and whatnot at the museum and researched the history of the buildings before putting that history on little plaquerds in front of all the buildings. My favourite was either the windmill they had, the water mill for grinding grains (still fully functional too) or the old bakery they had.
After this we went out to a church, it was one of the oldest churches in the area, it was built around like 1200 or something. The church looked really cool, after exploring the church we went around the town looking in at some shops and walking around the small river in town. After that we went back to the house on the autobahn, we got up 220 kph.

Day 2
Me, my aunt and Sarah all hopped on a train together and went down to cologne to see the church in cologne. The church was really impressive with a ton of stained glass windows and a lot of reliquarys After the church we wandered down through the town looking for a set of ruins which when we found them were not very interesting. So we wandered down to the Rhine river where we walked along the banks until we found the chocolate museum. Sarah decided to stay out since she had already seen the museum so me and my aunt explored the chocolate museum for around 2 hours. At the end of the museum I finally bought my first beer in Germany. It was a chocolate beer that they sold at the gift shop. AFter meeting back up with Sarah we went back onto the train and went halfway back to Sarah's house where we stopped at Düsseldorf. WE had intended to go find and art exhibit in Düsseldorf but it turned out to be closed so we spent a good hour maybe more just wandering the town before return home.