Burgen und Schlösser und Hamburg!

Since Marcus did such a good job of summing up our trip, I thought I would highlight the areas that particularly interested me (And no, this will not me a post dedicated to Miniatur Wunderland, although that would be entirely possible).

As Marcus mentioned, my host mother took us to different Castles around Münster. These were all really cool, and they all featured moats!

Versailles!!! Well the one of Westfalen at least!

Skipping ahead to Monday morning and Miniatur Wunderland. I seriously believe that I could have spent the entire day in there and would not have been bored. It really is much, much more then a model train world, even though that was the basis for it all. It has grown to include car/traffic system, a functional airport, and a harbor (using real water mind you). I stood and looked at the the first two displays for about 45 minutes...until I realized that I only had about an hour left and 5 or 6 more displays to look at, each more intricate then the next! I was able to make it through all of them, however, my camera died 2 displays in. Here are some of the better pictures I managed to get.

Multiple what you see here by 50, and that may be the size of the entire "Wunderland".

I forgot to mention there was a day/night time cycle. Here is a street party at night.

A look from the a model's perspective.

And let's jump ahead to Tuesday when we attended the Maritime Museum. Well I will step back a few hours. Before going to the Museum, Nick mentioned that there was a WWII U-boat base along the river. Jackie and I bit. Unfortunately it was too foggy to see across the river that day, so we wasted a few hours on that.

The Maritime Museum was pretty cool. I was sad that I along had two hours to get through 10 stories of Maritime history. Moving quickly, I was able to catch up with Marcus and Jennifer. We rushed through the rest of the stories just in time to see the largest miniature ship collection. Something like 40,000 ships or more.

One of the many interesting things at the Maritime Museum: A giant ship made out of Legos!

Well, I am going to stop there. Those were the things I found MOST interesting. I would like to write about everything, but that blog post would be far too long and Marcus already hit the highlights of the trip.

I was planning on posting this yesterday, but going through the enormous amounts of pictures I have, took quite longer than expected.

Bis bald,
Jake