{"id":26359,"date":"2014-09-30T15:24:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T20:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gottobepresenttowin.com\/?page_id=26359"},"modified":"2014-09-30T15:24:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T20:24:40","slug":"cologne-day-2-part-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gottobepresenttowin.com\/?page_id=26359","title":{"rendered":"Cologne Day 2 Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Continued from Cologne Day 2 Part 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nInternational sex symbol…I think my wife agrees…I think…<\/p>\n

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\nTime to visit the museum.<\/p>\n

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\nView of the cathedral from the museum.<\/p>\n

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\nYeahhhhhh….get some.<\/p>\n

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\nReminds me of my dog. I miss him.<\/p>\n

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\nThe man who the museum is named after.<\/p>\n

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\nPaul Klee, I love his work.<\/p>\n

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\nYou know, just important and expensive art work, sitting around in the middle of the museum in boxes.<\/p>\n

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\nPicasso. There are supposedly over 600 works of Picasso owned by the museum, however, only a few are on display.<\/p>\n

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\nNo big deal, just genitals drawn by Picasso himself. It’d be a lewd painting by me, but a masterpiece by him.<\/p>\n

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\nOut of his league?<\/p>\n

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\nJoan Miro (sp?)<\/p>\n

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\nHahaha.<\/p>\n

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\nI love the floor, the butt ends of lumber.<\/p>\n

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\nUp another level. This museum is actually a little bit smaller than we had expected.<\/p>\n

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\nOh nice, we can go out onto the third floor of the museum to take a photo of the cathedral. The weather is beautiful today, a little chilly in the morning, but now that it’s midday, very nice.<\/p>\n

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\nThey don’t build them like they used to.<\/p>\n

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\nOh, modern art on the third floor, this is always a hit or miss.<\/p>\n

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\nMiss!!<\/p>\n

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\nSeriously, airport photos? I’ve got photos like this, lots of them!!!<\/p>\n

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\nPerformance art.<\/p>\n

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\nThe description for the above performance piece. She doesn’t speak German but memorized a whole speech in German including the gestures.<\/p>\n

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\nHere she is doing another piece…completely naked. OK….<\/p>\n

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\nNope.<\/p>\n

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\nA man with an erection…but it’s ok, it’s in a museum so kids can look at it.<\/p>\n

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\nThe outdoor area that the museum cafe looks out onto. It’s a very nice day and everyone’s out and about.<\/p>\n

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\nWhat’s this?<\/p>\n

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\nApparently, it’s a man playing a piano while the man standing is smashing the piano apart with a hammer….Again, I don’t get it.<\/p>\n

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\nThe modern day Frida Kahlo?<\/p>\n

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\nAt the museum giftshop. LOL!!!<\/p>\n

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\nWell, that’s that with Museum Ludwig. Time to walk around and see what else Cologne has to offer.<\/p>\n

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\nOh, we hear jazz music from this place and it sounds live.<\/p>\n

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\nAwesome, a live jazz band, and they were kicking it! Too bad there’s no room to swing dance in here. A shame.<\/p>\n

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\nGonna visit this church after this bar.<\/p>\n

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\nFound a little nook to enjoy listening to the band. Everyone in the bar was old, probably had 30 years over us on average.<\/p>\n

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\nWe left the previous bar when the band took a break, and there’s another band outside also playing music.<\/p>\n

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\nIce cream!!!<\/p>\n

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\nChocolate!<\/p>\n

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\nNot bad at all.<\/p>\n

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\nStreet performers setting up.<\/p>\n

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\nThe girls wanted to look at this church and I wanted to watch the street performers. So I sat on the stairs and watched the street performers while they looked at the church.<\/p>\n

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\nThe church photos from the girls.<\/p>\n

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\nThe girls took this sneak photo of me. As I sat on the stairs watching the street performers, a lady walked up behind me and started watching them too. Then she disappeared for a split second and came back with a beer in her hands and offered it to me. Errrr, what? OK. Apparently, their tour agency right next to where I sat is having a 25 year anniversary celebration. People in Cologne are definitely much nicer than people in Bavaria.<\/p>\n

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\nThen the girls come back and we all joined the small party. At first I was skeptical whether these people were just nice, or if they are trying to lure me into booking a tour. As it turns out, the tours are only given in German and there are no tours for the rest of the week, so they were just being nice. I feel bad for not being more trusting of nice people.<\/p>\n

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\nWe drank and they kept on offering us more alcohol. We mainly talked to this lady in blue who was a hippie-ish woman who used to work as a tour guide for the company.<\/p>\n

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\nWhile we chatted, all these cars kept on pulling into this road only to find that it’s blocked off by construction and then they would need to reverse out.<\/p>\n

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\nFunny sign in the restroom at the tour office. I took this as I did the thing on the left side on the sticker.<\/p>\n

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\nTheir mini keg that they kept on pushing on us. By the time we left, hours and a half and a liter later, we’ve decided that Cologne is probably our favorite city in Germany. People aren’t complete cold faced assholes like they are in the other parts, especially Munich.<\/p>\n

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\nRoman sewers.<\/p>\n

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\nWe are looking for a place to eat, but it’s Sunday night so many places are closed, again.<\/p>\n

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\nThere are so many Jack Wolfskin jackets here in Germany. They have a near monopoly of the outdoor jacket here.<\/p>\n

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\nOne of the call bikes, you can drop it off anywhere you feel like. Cool.<\/p>\n

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\nI am hangry, tired, and grumpy. Must eat something quick.<\/p>\n

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\nChicken box, the greatest thing at McDonald’s since the invention of the McNugget.<\/p>\n

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Inspired by the jazz band earlier, RL wanted to find a place to go swing dance tonight if possible. JB’s hotel was close so we dropped by here to use the wifi! I just want to go back to the hotel and lay down. I am spent.<\/p>\n

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\nHere, I am trying to fix the GPS on the phone JB’s using. Damnit!!!!(A software update solved it)<\/p>\n

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\nJB trying to find a place to dance. The best we found was a jazz bar…maybe. I am skeptical on whether it exists, and even more so that it’s not gonna be open on Sunday night even if it does exist. Anyhow, it’s our only lead, so now we’ve got to walk around some more to go there. I am getting more grumpy.<\/p>\n

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\nWent down a street that turned out to be a little bit sketchy and most the people around were not Germans. Cologne seems to have more of a diverse population than Munich. Cologne is also, told by our tour office friends, much more liberal and open. We agree, this place feels similar to Austin in many ways.<\/p>\n

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\nI think this may be an old Roman gate??<\/p>\n

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\nThe beers are delivered at night with trailers pulled by regular sedans. Only in America do you need GIANT trucks to pull trailers.<\/p>\n

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\nOh, what do we have here? A Mexican restaurant. The girls were ecstatic over it!! I guess I’ll eat some.<\/p>\n

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\nSmells right in here, smells like fried corn chips.<\/p>\n

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\nStill no free water. We ended up paying over $10 for water here. I am fucking dehydrated, and it’s putting me in a bad mood.<\/p>\n

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\nTheir version of queso, hot cheese.<\/p>\n

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\nI will say, our enchiladas tasted pretty good.<\/p>\n

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\nDamn you Germany for making us pay big bucks for water!!!<\/p>\n

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\nJB and I getting our hair did at the same time. RL said that we were twinkies today.<\/p>\n

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\nAfter dinner, time to look for the jazz bar. I am so tired, but RL somehow is on her second wind.<\/p>\n

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\nThe bar does not exist, the address led us to a residential area. Good, we can go home now.<\/p>\n

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\nThis is a pretty neat residential area though. I’d live here.<\/p>\n

It’s been a really really long day for me. I need some time to chillax tomorrow.<\/p>\n

To be continued at Cologne Day 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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