Me and a friend hitched a ride and went to Cologne in August 2007 to visit her friend.

Getting comfortable on the way over	VEEERY comfortable ;)	Cologne, it is raining. Isn't that just great?	Claudia, in front of the Koelner Dom.	I am sooo happy that you finally made it!
Goood morning Cologne!	Her bedroom was soo small that we parked our lugguage in the living room.	The kitchen is so small, it fits into the drawer.	Looking down on the backyards.	This day is sooooooooo suunny! Let's go shopping!!
Aparently, we are not the only ones..	Claudia, takeing her third aspirin... (Actually, something else, but I don't know how to spell it...)	Nice deko in the shops!	That's Karin, with different hair.	I am soo happy that you came in our shop!
Getting a caffeine fix.	This might be something for Karin.	Lets take a picture and ask her later!	You were able to smell that shop from three streets away.	Quite lushy!!
Wanna see the city?	Oh yeah, we are gonne get up there tomorrow!	Dancing the night away...	Kinda crowded!	The next day. Half the way up on the Koelner Dom!
What? There's more? AAARGH!!	But this is a nice view!	AAAAAAAh! I had three heart attacks on my way up, but this view is worth it!	Luckily I am not afraid of heights! (Like a girl we've met upstairs...)	Look at the Rhine!!
Look how safe it is!	The decades definetly left their marks.	I wonder who did that?	Nice architecture!	But we were not ALL the way up!
Yay!! We did it!!	What?	Oh! Your right!!!	Somewhere over here must be Karin, studying...	That's not bird crap, that's graffiti!!
Where is the music coming from?	Admiring the view.	It is a bird!! It is a plane!!	No, it is a tourist...	Let... me... out!!
On our way down, we saw a bell.	24 metric tons of pure sound baby!!	Word of advise... Don't be in here when it is ringing.	Yay, we made it safe back down.	The train took a detour...
O yeah, the famous Koelner Karneval.	No, those are always dressed like that.	Woohoo! Ships!!	Woohoo! The chocolate museum!!	I am hungry!!
But first, let's have a tinkle.	The entrance.	First floor is about coca beans. The second one about the Azteks. The third one is product placement. And Ads.	Monkey wants banana!!	So this is what a jungle looks like...
A machine, used to crush beans.	They build a full working machine into the museum!	And a chocolate fountain!!	And IFM!	This is what chocolate looks like without a wrapper.
Careful... Caaaareful...	Okay, but where does all the yummy chocolate come from??	And the final stage	I found the easter bunny!!	And the easter turtles.
Mama bunny and papa bunny.	Chocolate makes you strooooong!	I think we got the same one somewhere back home.	This machine makes the easter bunnys hollow.	More hot chocolate sir?
The greenhouse from above.	Java Beans	More Java Beans.