Saturday, March 19, 2011

Sunday, February 13

Sunday, oh, Sunday was an AWESOME day.  We all had gone down to breakfast and talked about how well we thought Mr. Blye was doing and wanted to be a little more adventurous.  I had talked to Martin who was one of the managers of the front desk and asked if we needed a reservation for the Rhine Tower restaurant, because for Valentine's Day we really thought that that would be a great way to end our trip.  So he had told us that he would make the reservation, we also wanted to know how long it would take us to get there.  So after breakfast we set out to see what our timing would be.  So we hopped on the U76 which took us into the City to the Heinrich Heine Allee and surfaced to the street.  From there we took another train to the closest stop to the tower.  We got off the train, walked under an overpass, and found this winding path.  Instantly we all were so excited to be that close to the tower, finally.  We take this winding path down to the river walk and OH MY!  It was SOOOO BEAUTIFUL.  For one I don't know what really caught me first, there were so many things.  The laid back meanderings of all the people enjoying the day, or the beatiful walk that nestled in so close to the river.  There were so many things to take in.  There was art and kinetic sculptures that periodically showed up as we walked.  I instantly thought this is what I wanted to see.  There was no bustle of people trying to make it here or there or cars zooming by.  Lots of beautiful people out enjoying a wonderful day.  We started on the path towards the tower, still wanting to make sure we had an accurate way to time.  So we go to the tower and decided that we might try to go up to the observation deck if we could.  Well we found that they charged you for admittance and decided that we really wanted to save that for Monday.  So of we headed to the walk again and something caught my eye.  Earlier in the week we had watched a television show that mentioned that Dusseldorf has about 6-8 pieces of the Berlin Wall placed in parks throughout the city.  Remembering like it was yesterday when Regan told Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall!"  We were so excited to see a piece of history.  After that there are some buildings that are a famous design that sit along a canal off the river and we decided that we wanted to get down closer to see them.  We walked that way all the while oohing and ahhhing at all the neat things.  We got to this foot bridge that crossed over the mouth of the canal and we had a perfect shot of them.  We walked across the bridge to the center and decided that the direction that we were going was going to end soon, so we decided to turn around. We walked back up the path and seen more barges being moved down the river.  We got back to the path where we started and  everyone needed  a break.  Mom and Dad found this great little restaurant/coffee shop that sat along the path.  We stopped and had a bowl of soup and some great fresh bread.  After that we decided to keep heading North (I think) and check out more of the sights.  There were musicians dotted all along, one was doing his best rendition of Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson.  Restaurants and coffee were more frequent and more and more people seemed to join the day.  It was so nice to see all the people out enjoying it as much as we were.  We walked clear down to where our train line crosses over the Rhein, which we all thought was about 5 miles from where we started.  The weird thing was though you didn't feel like it was that far, but it was quite a long way.  We cut over and found one of the stops that the train makes and decided that we were gonna split up.  Mom and I headed to the Haupt Bahn Hof and the boys all headed back to the hotel.  The Haupt Bahn Hof was the hub for all the transportation in the city and had a lot of shops and restaurants.  That is where we found Mt. Dew for Gary.  He hadn't had one the whole time we were there.  Mom and I joked that we had spent the whole time there and here we were at the end of the time and finally found Gary a Mt. Dew.  So we grabbed up a variety of street vended food and headed back to the boys.  We finished the night with another great meal and was off to bed to await another adventure tomorrow.

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