Koln, Germany

For Valentines Day this year, we went to Koln, Germany. In English, it is said "Cologne". It is 2 hours south of Munster. We took a train ride to get there and it was beautiful.
This is the famous Rhine River:

Koln is like a fairy tale. All the streets look like this. The Romans settled the town and it is most known for the annual "carnival".

People were dressed up all over the place for the carnival. I snuck a picture of some of them. There was also an artist drawing on the sidewalk outside. It was so amazing, I had to take a picture:

This is a view of the whole city of Koln. It's enchanting. More so than Munster. The picture of all 4 of us girls jumping is outside of the Koln "dome". The soccer fans were cheering at us because they are so hard core about the games here. It was so fun.

This is the Koln Dome. The architecture of this place is amazing. I also took a picture of the archway which had figures hand crafted. Most of this catholic cathedral is original. Some windows, etc have been restored since WWII, but most is original. It took 600 years to complete.

This is my favorite stain glass window. It is made of the brightest colors all in little squares. And I got a picture of the gorgeous reflection of the colors on the walls and pillars. That was my favorite part of the dome.

McCord and I thought is was funny that this statue is holding a "holy hand granade" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. And also shown is one of the many stain glass windows with people:

After 500 steps to the very tippy top of the dome, you could look over Koln:

This is the gold box where they believe that this contains the holy scriptures of the 3 apostles:

The floor of the dome looks like carpet in the picture, but it had little stones about 2 cm long and it created a beautiful pattern. It must have taken the creaters forever to do the floor.

A picture of us and most of the inside of the dome:

Random: Brautwurst anyone? That's a lot of sausages!