Wow so much has happened in such little time. We have mostly done touristy things sine we have been here, tomorrow starts more of the veterinary aspect of the program. The first day we toured the city of Duesseldorf. It amazes me how you can be surrounded by huge modern buildings and then a moment later be walking down a cobble stone road with building that belong in a quaint old town. We got to go up the Rhine tower to taken in the view 168 meters above the city, we could alost see Cologne from there.
The next day, wed, we went to Cologe and got a tour of the city and their cathedal. When we first walked out of the hauptbanhof (train station) the cathedral loomed in the skyline. At first glance it looked like a hollywood fascade because of the stark contrast between the cathedral and the blue and almost cloudless sky.we also toured the former headquarters for the natzi's, it is hard to describe thw emotion a place like that conjours up even in men some one who is not german abd the natzi reign was beforwe i was born.
The best part of Cologne would have to be the zoo. There is not one like it in the states. You were so close to all the animals. (One exhibit was of a racoon!) we gt to go behind the scenes of a few exhibits, i was less than 5 ft away from a grizzly, and got to touch a giraffe and baby elephant.
Then today we climb up to some ruins. The ruins themself weren't to spectacular but the climb had so breath taking views!
Just talking about everything makes me feel tired! We have dome a lot of walking, but i am getting more and more used to it. I should be in good shape by the time this trip is done! More later tomorrow is an extremely early morning
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