Elowyn and I escaped by walking to the Stadt Museum. Not the icy coldness of a Toronto AC, but it did take the edge off. Poor Steven had to work in an unairconditioned office. His boss keeps saying he'll get AC installed, but nothing has shown up yet. Maybe that's why he comes home grumpy. Now he knows what E and I had to deal with in school!
At the Stadt Museum, they made me check my purse...Germans! But we walked around hands free. There were Roman ruins in the basement. The city was a whole lot lower than it is now!
No one was around including guards, so I took a bunch of photos without a flash. It was interesting because basically we started in the basement and it went from Roman times to modern Dusseldorf showing models of the city from various centuries and clothing, tools, art, toys, dishes, pottery, jewellery, weapons, documents of the time etc. It was very well presented. Seems like Dusseldorf was invaded many times, twice by Napoleon and there was a prominent room just for him. What we learned was that his second wife never wanted to marry him and was forced to. Poor woman!
E started to fade near the end, but I made her go to the special exhibition on the St. Lamberts cathedral which is 700 years old this year. Highlights were dry old documents and tres boring. Best part was the icy AC to preserve the documents. It was heavenly for that, and only that reason. Toronto should have a city museum too. Casa Loma would be a great start because everyone visits there.
We left and walked a few steps to the Rhein and scored a prime bench in the shade of the Sycamore trees watching the river traffic, then the outrageous German fashions. Elowyn has quite the knack for taking discreet photos pretending to take selfies. We saw, are you ready? Fannypacks! Yes! Big ones with emerald or peach straps that look leftover from the 90s! Elowyn snapped men wearing sequinned scarves. We also saw Prinz reincarnate walk by. Of course, footware matched mint green dresses or the ubiquitous salmon pants, but then we saw the kicker of it all...a man sporting what we have dubbed a bro-ssiere. It was hot and he had taken his black t-shirt and put up the hem through the neckline creating a bra effect (much as we used to do as kids), well, on a grown man over 60, it didn't look so good. It didn't help that E and I couldn't contain ourselves and burst out laughing, but she still managed to nab an incrimnating pix. She is resourceful if nothing else!
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