A Trip To Speyer

It had been a few weeks since we ventured too far from home and I was getting restless. Call me crazy but unless I have a trip planned and something to look forward to I go a little insane, stir crazy, caught up with cabin fever...you get the picture. It is so cool to have my sister Paige just 4 hours away so we decided to head over to her part of Germany for a few days. Just an hour outside of her little town of Kaiserslautern is a town called Speyer. The main attraction is the huge Romanesque Cathedral that is on the Unesco World Heritage Sites list. This church was enormous (and I've been to quite a few churches here in Europe!) The interior is very solid and boxy, very Romanesque. Of course the boys favorite part was the crypt in the basement that holds the remains of 14 kings.

Also in Speyer is a "technical" museum. The boys loved going inside all the airplanes and boats and space ships they had on display. The favorite part of this outing was the huge slide you could go down from the top of one of the airplanes on stilts all the way to the ground.

We always have fun visiting Paige. Just to be in a new part of the country and have new playgrounds to visit and things to eat and see is so much fun. Thanks Paige for a fabulous weekend!

The Cathedral in Speyer

Julian and I in front of the Altes Rathaus (Old Town Hall) in Speyer

The boys down in the CRYPT...spooky!

All Catholic Cathedrals have one of these where you can pay money to light a candle. Usually they are just little shelves with rows of candles on them so I thought this one was really cool with all the neat metal work surrounding it.

Hyrum and the boys slipped inside this Cathedral for a free organ concert. This isn't the famous Cathedral but one of the smaller ones in the town.

Two monkeys in a tree. The weather was just perfect to relax in the park for a bit of lunch and let the boys run around and get some wiggles out.

Paige found a nice place to relax and read her book.

The boys sitting in the lap of one of the kings statues outside of the Cathedral.

This is the slide at the technical museum that the boys rode down about 5 times each!

Townsend in front of a real Nazi U boat submarine at the technical museum.

Julian having fun at the park with Auntie Paige.