Our First Official Visitor!

Last weekend, we had our first official guest!  Mike’s Aunt Diane stopped over for 2 nights in Düsseldorf, on her way to Ireland.  For everyone’s reference, the Düsseldorf airport is about 5 minutes from our house, and we are happy to pick anyone up who wants to come to visit!  Erin & I showed Diane around Kaiserswerth, then let her rest for a little bit at the house.  (All guests are treated to top notch lodging in our 9 year old girl themed guest room!)  Afterwards we met Mike and Ryan (who were at a Bayer Leverkusen soccer game) for dinner at Zum Schlüssel, one of the oldest breweries in Düsseldorf.  We also wandered around town showing Diane some of the sights.  Mike and Diane also each did a shot of Killepitsch (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killepitsch), a Düsseldorf original.  Sunday morning, we took the train into Cologne for the day.  We took a bus tour of the city, which was perfect, as it was pretty chilly and rainy. 



Please be sure to remain seated on the bus, we wouldn't want this to happen to one of our guests!



One of the pubs we visited had a huge pile of snow out front (no it hasn’t snowed here yet).  When we asked, the bartender said that they are the last stop on a delivery route and the owner has the truck dump the ice outside.  Sure enough, everyone who walked by, stopped to look at the snow, or climb on it and take a picture.  Quite an advertising idea!  They also celebrate Christmas on the 25th of every month. 

 We topped off the weekend with dinner at Tonhalle in Kaiserswerth.  I hope that we didn’t exhaust Diane too much and she will be back to visit soon!