Day two in Cologne! We started with a rich breakfast (and a biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig cup of coffe )
On our way to the chocolat museum we saw this relief of the Domearea.
If we take the picture a dog want to sniff at me, but the mistress didn't allow it. We all laught about this. It was sweet, because the mistress and her friend look at our group, how we take the picture. (If she saw the article in German TV about ToyVoyagers?) But we have no time to think about it, so we go on our way. Look what we found for a Pub.
They make assisted drinking. Funny! And than we want to go inside the chocolate museum, in front of it we saw this skulpture.
Sadly the museum is closed on mondays, so we couldn't visit it. But Noah's Ark was there in the Rheinauhafen (harbour) near the chocolat museum. Ok not really the Ark, but a clone, half so big like the real one.
In front of the Ark stands a dinosaur. First I was a little shy to go to him.
But some minutes later, he didn't move I climb on his hand.
It was a very big adventure. Because the could move every moment. And below the dinosaur was a sign where is written: I eat my partner, because of that nobody allowes me to join the ark.
Ok, but I survived it and so we could go inside the ark. I saw a lot of other animals.
And I met Adam and Eve. Maybe someone can told me why they have no clothes.
On the boat deck were real animals. A donkey.
And a dromedary. First he was a little shy, because I look at him. First he nose careful at me.
But than he was so turbulent and want to cuddle with me.
After the cuddle I must sit down for a time. I feel like a pasha in this pillowes.
The pillowes leans on a tree (the tree of life) in this there were a little pond with fish.
Than I saw once again other animals. Leopards, a panda and a bear and kangaroo and a monkey and giraffes (they are really big).
And many many others. But if I want to take a picture with everyone we could stay to christmas there.
We saw some other figures from teh bible, too.
This is Noah, the builder of the ark.
And Goliat was there. I knocked him out. YEY!
An old school they showed. I sit in the schoolbank and listend a little to what the teacher saied. I'm a smart monkey, you know?!
Oh, and the archangel Gabriel was there, too. He killed the devil in front of my eyes. He is very strong.
This sign was funny, too. Ok, in the Ark, there was the tree of life, but some visitors forget, that this was only a copie of the real tree. So they must suggest, that the fish have not the permanent life.
And here is the last picture in the Ark. It shows me in a mirror and the root of the tree of life.
After all this we have a little consolidation before we go on a guided tour with a night watchman. I meet there "the mouse" and the elephant. And we drink a "Kölsch"
And than the guided tour with the night watchman begun... (Some pictures we take during the day time, because I was so afraid of the storys from the night watchman.)
Our meetingpoint was the "Heinzelmännchenbrunnen"
The story tells, that the Cologner mustn't work, because the "Heinzelmännchen" did the work for them during the night. And when the Cologner wake up the work was ready. But the wife of the dress maker was nosy and want to see the Heinzelmännchen. But they have caps which make them invisible. So the wife put peas on the stairs, the Heinzelmännchen cave down, the capes slip up and the wife could see them. From this time the Heinzelmännchen never come back and the Cologner must work themselfs.
- What a fantastic thought, you mustn't work, others do it for you.
Than we go to the Dome. And the nght watchman told a story about it. That the builder of the Dome make a bet with the devil. - How stupid. You never win a bet versus the devil. But ok ...
(Here I take a stab to go inside the treasure chamber. But: Psssscht!)
Than we met the fishmarket. From this place you can see the a church. And from this chruch (Big St. Martin) you hear ghosts. But only, when the wind blowes from the south.
An there are two guys. The left one is called Tünnes and the right one is called Schäl. Tünnes is a lovely boy and Schäl is a chiseller. (In short)
The night watchman told, that rubbing the nose of Tünnes brings luck, so I try it.
And at least we were at the town hall. On the tower are a lot of figures, all from Cologne. Did you know, that Agrippina was a Cologner? Agrippina is the mother of Nero. The night watchman told us, that if Nero knows Düsseldorf, he didn't fire Rome ... Ähm ok ...
At the town hall there are two stories. The first one is from the white women. If somebody saw here on this place, than he only have three dyas left and then he will die. I shiver, when I heard it.
And the other one is, that the devil catch the governing mayor of Cologne, when the citizen feel hungry and he won't open the depotes with the food.
Here you can see me in front of the town hall.
After that we go back to the hotel and sleep. Ok, I try to sleep, because I get so scared. But Zandy attend on me, so I could sleep without nightmares.