Monday, November 20, 2006

Rainy weekend in Germany




I spent the weekend in Germany! So no flight to England, no security check and no coffee at Starbucks. But it was a very busy weekend.
On Friday I attended a school reunion. Well, it is not a very big deal. My school does this for everybody every third Friday of November each year. I didn't really want to go since I don't feel very close to my old high school. But for some reason I went there anyhow. From the 100 girls in my class (1988) only 5 showed up. Main reason was nobody really received an invitation. The lucky few who left their email address to the school got an email a month ago, all other had the chance to find it in the local newspaper two days in advance, which is not very much. So I guess most of them just forgot about this annual meeting. But we had fun and there are plans for a class reunion next year.
Saturday started with rain, which was not good, because I really had to go to the cemetery to clean up our family grave from fallen leaves and plant some typical winter plants. Fortunately it stopped raining in the morning and Dave and I were able to work on it. I am glad about it, this weekend was actually the last chance for doing it since I will be in England the next ones and after work it is too dark. We also tried to find our second geocache. We had a nice walk for I don't know how many hours, but didn't find the station 4 with the final hint to the final coordinates. So no success story this time. Maybe I try it again tomorrow.....
On a rainy Sunday we drove to Cologne and visited the cathedral. Somehow we found our way to the central railway station and parked our car. The station is very close to the "Koelner Dom". We spent some time looking at all the artwork there and finally climbed one of the two towers. Sorry, I don't remember how many steps, but believe me, I think it was enough. The attached pictures are taken inside this church, but it was very dark so they didn't turn out very nice.
After dinner in Cologne and getting lost on our way to the airport we somehow managed to get there right in time for Dave's flight to England.
Next Wednesday it will be my turn to travel again.

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