Day 3 Memorial Weekend: Fantasialand and Cologne Cathedral

We spent this day playing at Fantasialand and then later in the evening checked out Cologne.  Fantasialand felt like Disneyland but less crowded and with characters we weren't familiar with.  The park is broken up into different areas of the world... Africa, China Town, Berlin, Fantasy and Mystery. 

Luke was big enough to ride most of the rides there.  He and Jake had a good time riding!  Ella went on quite a few, too.   

They've got fun activities for the kiddos that are included with admission... like face painting.  Luke was transformed into a dragon and Ella asked for a heart and a fairy. Not your avg. face painting.  These people go all out!  I need her to come to our house on Halloween.

Ella loved hers.  Luke, not so much.  He didn't like his face being completely covered.

When we got to the park they gave the kids little booklets to have stamped by various dragons and creatures in the park. If you find enough of the characters you get a surprise at the end of the day. Anyway, we were on the lookout for these things between rides and shows. Ella would only go up to them if one of us would go with her. Guess they are a little creepy.

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We couldn't drag Ella away from this area.  Lots of puddles to play in under a big octopus.

A closeup of her fairy cheek :)

 This frog ride was Ella's favorite.  Luke liked one of the roller coasters best. 

We were tired and hungry at the end of the day and drove over to Cologne to get some dinner and to see the cathedral.  It took forever to find parking in that city!  And there were a lot of restraunts, but most were closed for dinner.  Weird.  We ended up finding a pretty good Italian restraunt though.  Here's the cathedral.  It is HUGE in person.  The kids were tired and didn't want to get out of the car, but once we were out they wanted to keep running around this place to chase pigeons and didn't want to leave.

The front door to the place.  Huge. 

That's it from day 3.  Promise I was there, too.  haha.  I was the one with the camera pretty much the whole trip.