Dusselawesome

On Sunday I made a day trip to Dusseldorf to see all that there was to be seen. Our train left at 9:01 in the morning and we arrived in D-town around 10:00. We had planned to attend an English speaking protestant church at 11:00 and so we walked to the area that the church was in and got breakfast nearby so that we could ensure that we would be on time. We showed up a few minutes late of course, and apparently we ended up in the wrong place because it was a German speaking catholic church. Oh well, still got to worship, and that is all that counts! After that, we headed towards some ruins that are located along the Rhine. On the way we passed an awesome looking beer garden and since we are Germany, we had to stop and get a beer. It tasted great and the setting overlooking the Rhine was excellent. After we finished the beer, we walked down to the ruins and walked all around them to see all that there was to be seen, some of which you can see in the picture below.

After we saw enough of the ruins, we headed back to the central train station so that we could find our way to the exotic and classic car museum. About an hour or so later we found ourselves standing infornt of a big round building with a bunch of sweet looking cars sitting in many of the windows. We walked around inside for awhile and saw plenty of cars ranging from classic Jaguars all the way up to brand new Fararris.

Once we had our fill of the car museum/dealership (yes, you could buy them), we walk-trammed back to the main city to fill our stomachs. We found an Irish pub in the Aldstadt and ate there while watching a soccer game which we had zero stake in, but still enjoyed. When we could no longer stomach anymore food or beer, we returned to the main station to head back to Bonn. On the tram, a DB employee asked to see our ticket, and when I showed it to him, he told us it was not validated (We thought day-passes didn't have to be validated) and that we would have to pay a 40 Euro fine. I figured I should ask him if the same was true about our train ticket so we took that out and asked, and he handed us back the  40 Euros and said that our train ticket worked for all transportation in Dusseldorf, so that was a lucky break! Because of that little mishap, we had to wait an extra hour for our train home, but oh well, it was still a great day in the end!