Friday 13th - this fact totally escaped me until the next day and I'm pretty sure I wore black (I must have, 2/3rds of my wardrobe is black) but don't think my luck was off anyway ;)
We decided not to leave as early for Frankfurt as we had for the other 2 cities as the bus ride was only an hour and a half, and we needed some "chill" time hehe. (seriously. feet, neck, back and legs are all no longer speaking to me) So we caught the 11 bus again from Hahn airport.
We already had decided that our main attraction for the day was the Senckenberg Museum, so that Ingo could relive his childhood dinosaur fascinations :) It was pretty cool I must say! There were lots of replicas of skeletons, but the T-Rex skeleton is the original as in that was actually a dinosaur an age and a half ago! and as far as museums go, the layout of this one is quite good - not so straight forward as to be boring, but not too complex that you have no idea if you're coming or going either :) pretty cool exhibition layouts too - sorry, studies coming out of me atm - and then the replicas they had of just about ALL animal and bird life (alive and extinct) from I can't remember what beginning date :s were pretty awesome! Kiwi's there as well (thank goodness, because on a small stylised map I'd previously seen they hadn't even bothered to put New Zealand on there :s) Heaps of precious stones, prehistoric fish and footprints, all whales and their respective sizes and diets, and plant life - although by the time we made it to the plant life section of the museum we were both pretty museumed out.
So we decided to do a little bit of shopping. Which turned out better for Ingo then it did for me (as he managed to find a new pair of shoes, and 2 jumpers while the one skirt that I found and liked enough to show him, I was talked out of because of the price (36Euros) :/ So I told him that in Hong Kong I'm shoppng alone ;) The mall that we were shopping in attracted our attention, because the whole roof and half of the front facade is made up of glass triangles that undulate (very organic) into a hole in the facade that continues down through the entire 5 levels. At the entrance there's an escalator that unsuspecting shoppers (us) jump onto and then quickly realise that it doesn't go up just one level, no, it goes up all 5, so you have no choice but to go through each level on the way back down (as there's no 5 level down escalator :s) but the whole interior is very organic and the one level down at a time escalators were in a nice triangular layout that you could just keep spiralling down if you didn't want to shop on a particular level - very cool.
I've also now tried "Nord-see" Ingo's favourite sea food restaurant in Germany and had a fillet baguette which was very yummy all though no where near big enough :) My stomach has stretched since we've been here and my usual quantities of food are no longer enough.We thought that by catching the 8.30 bus home we'd be able to get back a little earlier but the bus driver took a detour to avoid a blockage that went pretty back roads through some tiny villages and we didn't end up home til around 10.30-11 ish, but Ingo's parents were still up, so we had a beer with them :)
Total Tally: over 5 small Villages of which Hundheim, Trabach, Bernkastel-kues are a few of, 4 Cities, and 3 rivers (Main, Rhine, Neckar) phew. Oh! and 2 countries (Luxembourg for 10 minutes totally counts ;) )
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