Thursday, May 03, 2012

Day in Dusseldorf

Yesterday we had to check out of out Hotel early in the morning and we weren't able to head to our next Hotel until Matt was done with work for the day.  We loaded the Audi A6 he had rented for the move and he dropped us downtown to explore.  We mailed postcards, got a bus pass, pick up some gifts, and lunched until the thunder storm started.  It was once the storm started that we decided we need to find something to do inside and where you didn't need to pay to use the toilet (yes any where between 10 cents and a full euro) or else we were going to be miserable.  Aqua Zoo was the place.

I think we learned more about water life than we have ever before.  I think partly due to the English Audio Tour.  You see to the left a picture of Christian and Nika learning about Whales.  While evolution seemed to be the overall theme of the Aqua Zoo we really learned a lot.

 To our surprise (we are surprised a lot) Aqua Zoo is located in a beautiful park called Nord Park.  We will be going back, but what we did see was water fountains the resembled the water fountains I saw in the Winter Palace in Russia and Versailles in France.  Apparently it was built during Nazi times and has a beautiful Japanese Garden, which we have yet to experience.

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