Location: Speyer, Germany

Ok, so today, I went to Speyer, Germany. It's a quaint little village that has Europe's largest Romanesque Cathedral. Interesting artwork it has, with it, I learned something new today. Did you know that in the earlier centries a lot of times sculptors would depict religious people with horns on their heads? Of course a lot of them have been filed down and off of their heads, but it started because of mistranslation. Aura was translated to horns instead. So yes, it was somewhat amusing to see Moses with horns on his head, but it was definately different.

So Speyer is one of those cities that you see once, and it's ok! But unfortunately I did not take my camera with me, I really need to work on this; but maybe I can steal some pictures from the people who went with.

After the Cathedral we went to a "Technik Museum" which houses a lot of airplanes, and cars, and such. Best part: Outside of this museum are some big 737s, F16 and F18s. Not to mention a huge submarine and a big ole Carousell and a few trains. This one particular 737 was up above the ground about 100 feet. When you get up there there is a platform and then you can climb another 20 feet or so up to the plane part to go and check it out. Well instead of going the last 20 feet we took a slide down! This huge enclosed tunnel made from metal was attached to the platform where you could take a mat and slide down the slide. The first time I went I was a little skeptical. I was the 3rd from our group and the first guy who went fell off his mat a couple of times on the way down. So funny to hear him skid and slide, then get on, and then skid and slide some more. So hilarious! So as I went down for some reason I kept pickin up speed. This slide was a funnel style and it just twisted but oh so fun! As I came out I thought I was going to shoot right off the end and go skidding onto the concrete and into the snow! But no worries, I didn't.

After going down the second time we decided to go and find the second slide. This was a smaller version, but this did not matter. With this one we had to climb through a plane and Germans being smart had the plane tilted which made it ever so much harder to climb through the plane and into the slide. I decided to go first this time and down and out I went. I banged my knee up against the side of the end and shot out a warning to the two guys who were to follow me. I told them to watch for the ending because it slams you against the edge. Now the guy who skidded down most of the first slide came down and figured it would be much easier than the first. He did manage to stay on his mat, but at the end he got slammed harder than me and ended up on his side and sliding to a halt. Now the second guy came down he was doing good, but as he exitted the tunnel we saw him on his stomach. We thought he was just being silly and came down on his stomach... Trust me, if you knew this kid, you would have thought the same thing. So as we sat there and laughed at this kid. I asked him as to what had happened. At the end of the tunnel the last turn he was thrown too high to one side and got tossed to his stomach. Oh what a good laugh!

But today I have huge bruises on my knees. OUCH! Oh well, though I have no pictures from this wonderful trip it was still fun, and I truly hope you find this as much fun as I experienced first hand!
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