Bon-Bons in Bonn Bonn

The beautiful yellow university
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Okay, so last update was Paris, hope you're all caught up...

We got a rideshare with a Deutsche man named Sascha who drives back and forth to Paris every Fri, Sat AND Sun! Something to do with Ebay, I didn't really get it. Anyway, a nine person van, full of ridesharees,which is certainly good for him!

We arrived in Bonn at about midnight and Andreas, a couchsurfer, met us at the main station and took us to his place (he even paid for the bus ride!!) where we hung out talking until 'tired' won out and we went to bed... in a loft, oooh... His student residence building was certainly cooler than ours in Hamburg! He had a HUGE open place with a loft bedroom (though his kitchen was EVEN SMALLER THAN OURS!!!).

i tried to lick one of these plants...i thought it would be tasty but it just really hurt.
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Our first morning he made a giant brunch with cheeses and breads and cereals etc... Better than most hostel breakfasts! Then he took us all over the city and explained the history of different buildingsetc. He showed us the university botanical gardens which has the largest flower in the world (sadly,it was not blooming when we were there).The uni there is really nice and pretty much the raison d'etre for Bonn, ever since the capital was moved back to Berlin. In fact, the city had just built a brand new parliament when they moved!!!

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We saw beethovens house, which had the most kitschy and ridiculous tourist junk I've ever seen (excludingperhaps the leaningtower of pisa,they had a lot too!!) Also, we saw some really nice churches and one with really old cloisters.

We sat in the shade for a while, enjoying ice cream and watching the Graduation tent getting set up (men with no shirts showing offto the girls in their bathing suits) then went back for supper and watched Before Sunrise, which takes place in Vienna and was pretty neat to watch, since we will be there very soon!

The next day he took us across town to a reeeally big park and showed us a totem pole that was a gift from a chief in BC!! Then we went to one of the best modern art museums we've seen yet! Scott finally finally FINALLY got to see an Anselm Kiefer painting, in fact we saw THREE as well as a sculpture!! They had a lot of our favourite artists (like kiefer for scott, Gerhrardt Richter for me...mmmm goops and splats and colours of fun) and also introduced us to a lot of new artists. Mostly German. So we've concluded that

1850-1940 Paris is the scene to have

1950-1980 New York

Today? All about the Germans. They know their stuff!

Also the museum was the perfect length. We looked at it all, took an apple and sit break outside and had an hour to go stare at our favourites for a long time then do a run through ONE MORE TIME! Sadly, there was no collection book, probably for the best, we kind of have to stop spending money on really heavy stuff! OH! AND the museum only cost 1euro50!!!

We got a little lost on the way home, but then it turned out that we were only lost by about four houses but we got all turned around and went farther away!!!

We watched the Deutschland/Italy game then went to bed early because of our train the next day!!

AT 630am!!!!