Locks of Love

Don't you just love a lazy Sunday morning with a breakfast buffet? We do, and so does Maddie with her first time in a high chair.

Then we jumped back on the road and after only a 30 minute drive we arrived here...

KOLN or COLOGNE, GERMANY!!

I love how close everything is. This is the "Dom" or the Cologne Cathedral. It has the largest facade of any church in the world. It's spires rise high into the sky and the details are impeccable.

As we entered the enormous church, music from the organ filled the air and people filed to the front for sacrament as Sunday Mass was well underway.

Next to the Dom is a huge steel bridge that goes across the Rhine river. The railing of the bridge is covered with locks. The tradition is that people on love will attach a lock to the railing and then they toss the keys in the river.  As long as the lock stays on the railing the love will stay strong. They're locks of love!

We even found a lucky lock for my brother Tom and his cute wife Melyssa!

Here is a view from across the river looking back at the old town in Colonge.

Then we took a Sunday sfternoon stroll by the river and into the old town...

...where we stumbled across some amazing street art...

...and ended our Koln-Dusseldorf tour with a classic Greman sausage.