Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Day 22: Fun and Games

So we had a solid plan for today, but they got stuffed around a bit this morning by the opening times of the various things we were going to see. In the end, however, we got to everything we intended to.

We went to a maze this morning. Made of Hemp plants. I have photos, but no time to upload them this morning. We were the only people there who were not either under 10-years-old, or supervising people who were under 10-years-old. But because we can't speak any German, we had fun!

You get a little brochure thing on the way in, containing a list of questions and a slection of coloured shapes. The idea is to find, inside the maze, signs that give answers to the questions, and hole punchers of different colours which punch appropriate shapes into your card. Once you have all the holes punched and questions filled-in, you hand it back in at the shop - possibly to win a prize or something, who knows.

Because of our lack of skills in the German language, we had great fun trying to match words on the signs with those on the questions to get the answers... no idea how we went, but we banked on having the right answers :-)

The it was to the water slides!! The place we went was part of Therme Erding (http://www.therme-erding.de/de/100682/100888/english.html) - but we only went to "Galaxy Erding" - a dome-shaped building filled with about a dozen water-slides. Everything from 4 foot-high kiddy slides, to "extreme" slides. We tried out all of them except the kiddy ones that we thought we might get ordered off if we tried to get on them!

There was a central stair-tower that all the slides came off - some from the second storey, with the highest ones up as high as 8 storeys.

Pretty much every slide had it's own theme or novelty to make it totally different from all the others, for example:

The slide with uphill parts - where there were jets of water to push you uphill (you had to have an inflatable donut thing to go on it)

The Extreme Faser - "reach speeds of up to 72km/h"... and it timed your run, so you could see how quick you go. Owen (4.75 sec) defeated Xavier (4.77 sec) in the duel by the barest of margins.

I could tell you all about every slide, they were all awesome! It was such a good fun way to finish off the trip espacially given we were both pretty much ready to go home.

If anyone every asks me what to do in Munich... I will recommend the slides!!!!!


1 comment:

  1. Man I have been to Munich twice and have miss the slides!!! I guess I will have to make it a third visit!

    "Cry, 'Havoc!' and let slip the dogs of war." Bill Shakespeare

    (I couldn't find a quote on slide but slip will have to do...)

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