The redhead saw cologne and forgot to write a post. Whoops!

    Cities are big.
And the funny thing about European cities versus American cities is... in America a city is shopping, government buildings, and entertainment. In Europe, everything, everywhere is built right on top of historical things. anything you can imagine. In fact right now, I'm probably standing above the buried silverware of a very wealth person from a really freaking long time ago.
    Well, probably not, but you get the idea.
So in European cities there are lots of History museums and old Gothic churches and ancient cities up the wazzu! We have some history museums, but not really, these history museums explain the history of our history's history... so, yeah, Europe wins over America by superior age. Duh.
     Now Cologne. Well first off there's the name. The international name for airports and crap is "Cologne" which isn't actually what the Germans or anyone who can pronounce an umlaut call it. They call it "Köln". "Cologne" is a French name. And I know you are thinking,"DUDE, Cologne is in Germany, why the hell does it have a friggin French name? that makes no sense!".Oh but it does my dear friend. Because a long-ass time ago France was really big and half of what is Köln today on the left side of the Rhein, was in France. And the Rhein seperated the civilized city of Cologne from the uncivilized world outside of France.
   So other than the name, Cologne has many old historical buildings, the jemstone of which is their beloved Cathederal. It is the second largest Building in Europe, eclipsed only by the Eiffel tower. It was mountainous stain-glass windows and a spiral staircase mounting to the top of one of its towers. We climbed to the bell in the tower and I'm not lying when I say it was the most exerting and cramped tourist attraction I have ever attended because the staircase is really barely big enough for two people side by side on a step. But it was all fun, the view at the top is breath-taking and the view inside the church is just as so, beautiful, intricate, and huge. Our tour guide, a native of cologne, said that it was so ingrained in their life that he missed it when he went away.
    We also went to the Chocolate museum, which was interesting, and had all the explanatory descriptions in German and English, allowing me to learn a few interesting new words. And down the shopping streets which was really weird because, ´hier, their streets are not made for cars. their shopping streets are for people, their strollers, their, bikes, their dogs, and their feet. And I love it.
    The only thing that was not fun in the least was that it rained pretty heavily for most of the day, forcing me to learn the word "euchgeveicht"(soaked), because heck was I when we were leaving. Fall is coming, and how weird that my school in America has started already, yet here I am writing to you lovely people.