Cologne is Cool!

We spent our last week in Germany in Cologne, which is actually one of the biggest cities in Germany (who knew?). But you’d never know it, really, being there.

Well, there’s lots of attractions. Like Germany’s largest cathedral — Episcopal, not Catholic. And a zoo with an amazing elephant habitat. And an indoor water park with slides galore. (Remember that place we went in Prague? This was very similar, with one additional slide that scared the pants off me: You stand with your arms crossed over your chest, and then the floor drops out from under you. You fall until the slide actually goes back up to almost your original altitude, then shoot down toward the light at the end of the tunnel. Lucky to be alive, people, I am.) And a chocolate museum, and an Olympic museum. And the beautiful Rhine River, with amazing green space everywhere.

But it also feels safe and lived-in and easy to explore.