Trip to Speyer...

Today we woke up, loaded the crew into the van and headed to Speyer, a city about 30 kilometers from our temporary apartment in Bad Schönborn. I made a quick trip there when I first visited Germany in September '06.

Cathedral in Speyer

Even though most people outside of Germany have probably never heard of it, Speyer has more than its share of interesting things to do. It's home to one of the oldest cathedrals in Germany, has an aquarium (on the Rhein) and a really cool "technik" museum.

The kids had a blast playing on a huge spider on the playground. We then had lunch at a nice café (Sophia still smells like a Marlboro). We ended our trip by going to a history museum that had a kids' exhibit on pirates (one of Robert's latest obsessions).

Next time we have a decent weekend weatherwise, we'll go back and visit the aquarium and teknik museum. The latter has a bunch of planes displayed outside on tall pedestals; one of them is a 747.

BTW, Popozuda did a fine job of keeping us on track.