The past two weekends have each included a day trip. First, Asisa and Timo took Chris and I to a German theme park! Heidepark is just a couple of hours away outside a small town. It was smaller than the parks I’ve been to in the U.S., but had some really awesome rides. One of the roller coasters is in the Guinness Book of World Records for steepest drop on a wooden coaster. My favorite, though, was called Desert Race. It was really smooth with lots of twists and turns and super fast : ) The park was also really pretty. It’s German, so of course it has lots of greenery and is really well kept-up. The most hilarious part was that they had a number of American themes for the different sections of the park. Some of them never seen together in the wild!:
Mississippi Steamboat and Statue of Liberty
On the lake you can also see the White House! Which is actually a burger joint…
The White House
Notice the Native American and Wonder Woman (?) out front. Some of the other sections were Wild West, Desert, Mayan/Incan, Switzerland and Medieval. We spent about 6 hours there and got to do pretty much everything we wanted. The park closes by 6pm every day (so German of them). The lines for the rides were pretty short, never more than 25 people, or so. It was a day well spent.
Thanks, Asisa and Timo!
Our trip last weekend maybe doesn’t qualify distance-wise as a trip since it was right on the outskirts of Kiel, but it was a trip back in time! We went to the Freilichtmuseum Molfsee. It’s an outdoor museum where you learn about country life in 18th and 19th century Schleswig-Holstein. It was really cool for me because of all of my Theodor Storm research. Now I can actually picture how the country folk lived. Storm lived in a city himself, but lots of his stories take place in villages.
Living Room
beds in the wall between the living space and the animal stalls
sheep!
people sure did love their gardens back in the day
sweet cabinet with Friesian-tile wall
I took tons of pictures, but I hope the ones that I picked out gave you an impression of how pretty is was. It was a bit difficult to take pictures inside the houses because they were all so dark! It was even midday when I was taking them. People must have been outside most of the day, despite the nasty weather that is so typical here.
This week, however, it’s warmed up again! I got to play sand volleyball three times this week! It was great fun and a great workout : ) I hope it will soon get nice enough to spend the day at the beach!
Loved the photos! Is that the Gateway Arch in the background at the theme park? I think they should add a replica of Mount Rushmore in that section. Too fun (and funny).
I would enjoy seeing the historical preservation site. I am sure it added nuance to your understanding of Storm as well.
Thanks for sharing!