A day in Sinsheim, Germany

I was up kind of late last night watching an episode of 24, I'm kind of enjoying it, but it's kind of slow. I used to laugh at my dad for fast forwarding the shows and watching the subtitles really fast, but it actually works really well... especially when the girls are crying. I got up around 7:00 with the voice of my grandpa through my bedroom door. I very groggly got out of bed and ate some breakfast. Then we got ready for the day and went down to the bus station. We decided to go to Sinsheim for the day and visit the "Auto and Technik Museum". The bus came at 8:29 and was on time! We took the bus to another station and got on that bus and took it to the train station. It was two sort of long bus rides so I looked out the window and listened to my IPod. It was the first day I brought it along and I did it because I had three songs stuck in my head and just needed to keep listening to them so I didn't drive my self nuts humming. We then got off the bus at the train station my grandparents spent about 10 minutes trying to figure out how to get tickets from the machine in german. It was interesting. I walked around and took some pictures and then was temporarly freeked out when it wasn't recording the pictures I took. They kept showing up as currupted files. I figured out that it was because I wasn't waiting long enough for it to aim or something. I was definitely releaved! We waited for the train and went through an underground tunnel to the other side of the tracks and it smelled like urine and smoke. Pretty gross! We waited for about 15 minutes and watched some crunstruction workers lay some footings for a foundation. They were building another station on the other side of the track as well as more tracks.


We then got on the train and I experienced my first train ride! It was pretty fun. It was a long ride to Sinsheim, but we got there in about 25-30 minutes. We walked to the museum and I was quite amazed at how big the planes were that were mounted on the buildings. We went inside and got our tickets. We had the option to watch an I-Max film, but we decided not to because we wouldn't really have enough time. So then we actually did end up going into the I-Max right away because we had to watch an introdutcion fild for the Museum. Something really funny happened. We were standing there waiting for the line to open up and we saw this mouse walking around. The area was pretty open and empty and he just ran around and looked in the corners and then walked over to a door and someone let him out. It was the strangest, most random thing ever, but funny. After we went to the I-Max thing, we started to look around.

There was a ton of cars! And all kinds of them. There were a lot of Marcedes Benz, but there were also Farraries and then a couple of the U.S. brands. There were a couple rooms of cars (Like really huge rooms!). And at least 1000 cars in all. There were countless displays of motercycles and old mopeds. There was even a large section just for military stuff like helicpters, guns, tanks and life size World War 2 models. It was a lot of fun. Oh and there were these large player organs all over the place and even machines that had a ton of instorments that would play mechanically. My grandpa stopped at almost every single one and would put the 1 Euro in to play it. The first time he did it made me jump because it was so loud! The organ could be heard through out the whole museum! My grandma and I were always able to find him though! haha

After walking around a little bit we got a little hungry and went over to the little snakc shop. I was then greatly disappointed with both things that I got to eat. One was hot chocolate which tasted like watered down dirt. Then I ate some pizza that didn't taste too well either. Oh well though, you got to have a bad food experience sometime. So then we finished looking around in the first building. There were some big trains and old tractors and bull dozers. IT was really cool! We then went over to the second building which had some airplanes in it and mor modern cars. I looked around for a little bit and took pictures. There was also a big train set that was really cool! I then climbed a huge set of stairs to the roof of the building where all the airplanes were. You were able to go into all of them. IT was a lot of fun, but they had a lot of the stuff fenced off on the inside, so you had to "look with your eyes not your hands". One of the airplanes had a big slide that went down from it and you slid down on a special pad. It was a lot of fun! I also went to the gift shop and got a cool german jacket shirt type thing. I'm not sure how to describe it, but it's camouflage and has two German flag patches on the sides. I liked it and knew I wouldn't see it again so I got it.

We then left the museum and started walking back to the train station. On the train ride back I just looked out the window and thought as I wrapped my day up. I also had the song stuck in my head still. I sang it like the whole time I was at the museum, it was the worst case of "Stuck in my head" that I have ever had...

We then got home and I played some piano and hung around the house. Then we watched some family videos and I got to see myself 8 years younger :) I was so little... and now I'm so..BIG! I also got to see my little brother when he was the size of my little sister Abigail.. if not smaller. It was fun! I also wrote a story on a cool little keyboard with my cousin Ana. Then I went with my Uncle to pick up my cousin Emily at a small group she was at. We also brought to of her friends home. My uncle and I had a nice trip there listening to some of my music and I got to show him what I was interested in. I then came home and went to bed! It was definitely needed!

So that was the Friday I had in Sinsheim! It was a lot of fun, but really long!

My adventure continues with... My trip to France!